Henrietta Dent is an artist and artisan based in London. She works with traditional craft techniques and experimental and innovative weaving methods exploring the relationship between light, space and form to interweave the boundaries of fine art and craft.
Each material and process she uses are overlooked, flawed, or disregarded. She combines these elements to challenge their perception and question their value.
A metaphor for her practice is the loom she weaves on which was reclaimed from various discarded pieces of a George Wood loom that she restored to a unique working object.
BIO
Henrietta Dent (b.1996) studied at Manchester School of Art before graduating from the Royal College of Art where she gained an MA in Textiles, specialising in Weave. Dent has won prizes including the Zoffany Visual Arts Award, UK, 2022 and the Coats Foundation Trust Sponsorship Award, 2020. In addition, she has exhibited work nationally and internationally, including Planet-Saving Innovations at Fabrica X, London Craft Week, UK, 2024; Crossing Through the Spike Isle at Wutong Gallery, Nanjing, 2023; Thinking Through Making Symposium at Kings College London, 2022; No.43, Atelier LK, London, UK, 2021; Further Than the Eye Can See, London, UK 2021; Precious Waste, London Design Festival, UK, 2018. In 2024 she created a large-scale woven installation for Burberry, Frankfurt. Currently, she is working with Atelier LK for a project based in the US.
