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Bio
Eliza Bennett (b. 1980 UK) currently lives and works in Staffordshire. After several years producing costumes and props for theatre and film. In 2010 a bursary award from the Royal British Society of Sculptors, provided the catalyst toward developing her own art practice. More recently, the support of a Leverhulme scholarship enabled Eliza to pursue an MAFA at City & Guilds of London Art School. Her works have been included in several arts publications and selected for exhibition worldwide
Education
M.A. Fine Art - 2016-2018 - City & Guilds of London Art School - Distinction
B.A. Honors Fashion Design - 2.1 Middlesex University - 1999-2002
B-Tec National Diploma, Art and Design - Stafford College - 1997-1999
Selected Work/Shows
2023
Woodland House Bereavement Centre, Birmingham Women’s Hospital - Artist/ Designer
Soft Tissue, Metroland Cultures, London, 25th Nov- 10th Dec.
Skin: A Layered History, Royal College of Physicians. Edinburgh, 10th Feb- 13th Oct.
2022
Venerische Sterne Art & Embroidery, Bundner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland Sept-Nov.
Watching Weeds - 15-19 Parkhouse St, London, 29th - 31st July.
2020
BFFMANTOVA - Galleria Disegno, Mantova, Italy - 9th -13th Sep.
False Memory - Rugby Museum & Art Gallery, UK 6th Aug - 14th Nov.
2019
From The Book To The Book - Offshoot Gallery, London, UK - 8-17th Nov.
Yield - 163 Gallery, London, UK - 21st Sept - 6th Oct.
One of One - After Projects, 163 Gallery, London, UK - 17-19th May.
Young Gods - Charlie Smith, London, UK - 8th Feb - 9th March.
2018
When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything - Nunn’s Yard Gallery, UK - Dec
Specious-Species - MA Graduate Show, City & Guilds London Art School, UK - Sept
Work Never Stops - 4th Ural Industrial Biennial, Russia - Nov - Jan
2017
String Figures - Beursschouwburg, Brussels, 20-21 Oct.
Her/selves - Blueproject Foundation, Barcellona, Spain - Dec - Feb
Woven: Words - Slowtrack Gallery, Madrid, Spain - Nov - Jan
2016
The Seer: Supernormal Festival, Oxford, UK - Aug
Alchemy Film festival, Hawick, UK - April
2015
Venula Venulae - pop up show, Peckham, London, UK
The Future Can Wait, Bermonsey Project Space, London, UK
Warm Kitty Soft Kitty , Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago, US - Sept- Dec
Traces of life, Dalarnas Museum, Sweden, June- Sept
Kunstfestivalen– Voss Arts Festival, Norway - May
Make/ Create - Griffin Gallery/ Quest, London, UK - May
The Needles Eye – The National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design - Oslo, Norway -Jan- April
2014
The Needles Eye – KODE , Bergen, Norway - Sept- Dec
13 Days of Violence - Exit Room - Brooklyn, New York Nov.
2013
Cork Street Open, London, UK
The London Group Open –The Cello Factory – London, UK
Raw Skin – Karin Jansen Project Space – London, UK
Cold Climate – Occupy My Time - London, UK
2012
Passion For Freedom - Unit 24 Gallery - London, UK
Kadin Projects - Arbeit - London, UK
Awards
Tony Carter Award – City & Guilds of London Art School, 2018
Leverhulme Trust Scholarship - City & Guilds of London Art School, 2016 -2018
Cork Street Open – Prize Winner - 2011
Royal British Society of Sculptors - Bursary Awards, 2010
Press / Publications
Motifs: Embroidery from the Middle Ages to the present day - Between submission and resistance. Number 7, 2023. Stung Raw: Tattooing the skin with threads by Sarra Mezhoud
Etudes: Theatre and performance studies journal for emerging scholars. Vol 5 No.1 Dec 2019. Women’s Work: Queer phenomenology and performing domesticity by Thea Fitz-James
HAUT: Dermatologie, Issue No.3 – Germany, June 2018
Remugle – La Peau, Issue No.1 – France, 2017
Herselves – Blueproject Foundation - Spain, exhibition catalogue, 2017
Migrate Magazine, Issue No. 021 – South Africa, 2015
Faenfare Magazine, Issue No.5 – Norway, 2015
Nalen’s Oye. Samtidsbroderi – KODE Nasjonalmuseet, exhibition catalogue, 2014
The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture – Jac Scott. Published 12/05/2014, By Crowood Press. ISBN 9781847977212