Lucie Bennett
gained a BA from Manchester Metropolitan University in Interactive Arts,
graduating in 1997. She also studied at L’Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de
Nantes in France. Since 2001 she has exhibited widely, including several
times in New York, at the prestigious Armory Show among others, as well as a
solo exhibition of new work in London in 2011. Bennett’s interest in the female
form has taken her to a new dimension in her latest series of
works. Retaining a female sensuality reminiscent of her earlier
works, she uses line, shape and colour to glorious effect.
During study visits to
make drawings at the Botanical Gardens at Kew, Lucie Bennett discovered uncanny
similarities between plant forms and the occasionally florid structures of the
body's internal organs. Many of the recent works began as drawings and collages
inspired by these visits, and the resulting imagery is visceral and vaguely
hallucinogenic. These new works are rich in enigmatic patterning, executed
using bold colour combinations. Tubular, colonic shapes elide with what look
like stylised fallopian tubes; fractal borders between lakes of contrasting
colours switch between figure and ground and back again.
Her work is on permanent display in London's Groucho
Club, and she has been commissioned to create work for Selfridges and House of
Fraser. Bennett's Wink adorned a Porsche
at Silverstone in 2005 and her work has been featured on the BBC’s The
Apprentice and The Culture Show.
Popular prints by Lucie Bennett include Pink Knickers, Red Felt Tip
Girl, Green Felt Tip Girl and Thundercloud.