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Louis Bennett – MA/MFA
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2013-17
Glasgow School of Art
First Class BA Hons in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking2018-2021
Slade School of Fine Art
MFA in Fine Art PaintingPublications
‘? (Online Publication), 2020:
Awards
Bloomsbury Festival Art Prize 2019
Slade Print Fair Scholarship 2019
Stevenston Award for a Painter of Merit, RSA New Contemporaries 2018Experience
Visiting Tutor, Camberwell College of Art, February 2020
Private Art Tuition, June 2020 – Present
Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art, January 2021 -
Louis Bennett – MA/MFA
Price List
I Know Where I’m Going
2021
Oil and Alkyd on Canvas, 160 x 210 cm
£5000
Under The Sky
2021
Oil and Alkyd on Canvas
160 x 210 cm
£5000
She’s My Girl Now
2021
Oil and Alkyd on Canvas
150 x 200cm
£4600
The rest of the paintings are not for sale.For all sales enquiries, please contact the artist directly .
All works are unframed, unless otherwise stated, and prices shown do not include postage and packaging.
NB: The Slade School of Fine Art does not act as an intermediary for sales, nor is it liable for any disputes arising from sales of artworks.
Louis Bennett – MA/MFA
I am a British painter exploring autobiography within shifting historical contexts. Through painting, I reflect on inherited identity, accountability, and being a white, northern artist working in a country in the death throes of a toxic, colonial nationalism.
My paintings follow a thread of British history from the distant past to the present day. Different decades allide, eras bleed together, and parallels are drawn between them. I am interested in the myth of England that grew with Empire and how it pertains to my hometown, an ex-slave port in the post-industrial north of England. My paintings explore the false idyll of green and pleasant England with a critical eye. My paintings have become increasingly autobiographical, turning focus onto my own relationships and mental health. I allow myself to emerge as a protagonist, picking through the visual detritus of a dead empire searching for answers to deeply personal struggles.