BORN: - - UK , 1971 - - - - - LIVES/WORKS: - - London Uk - - - - - EDUCATION: - - 2002 MA Painting Royal College of Art 1993 BA(Hons) Fine Art Ruskin Oxford University - - - SOLO EXHIBITIONS: - - 2007 Bad Moon Rising Rockwell Gallery, London - - - SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2008 Precious Things High Lanes Gallery Drogheda Ireland 2008 The Past is History Changing Role Gallery, Naples and Rome 2008 Golden Record Collective gallery, Edinburgh 2007 The Future Can Wait Ellis Rumley Projects, London 2007 Nature and Society Dubrovacki Muzeji (Dubrovnik Museums)Croatia 2006 Fuckin’ Brilliant! Maji Yabai! Tokyo Wondersite, Shibuya, Tokyo 2005 .. if you go down to the woods today Rockwell, London 2004 John Moores 23 The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2004 Collage Bloomberg Space 2004 One Night Stand Pearl Projects, El Montan Motor Hotel, San Antonio, Texas 2003 Full English MOT, London 2003 The New Topography Geoffrey Young Gallery, Massachusetts 2002 New Contemporaries Static, Liverpool and Barbican, London 2001 At Home Lennon, Weinberg Inc, New York - - - AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: - 2004 Cocheme Fellowship, Byam Shaw School of Art 2001 Amlin purchase prize (1st prize) RCA interim show - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY: - 2007 Nature and Society, Catalogue, Text by Richard Dyer, Dubrovacki Muzeji (Dubrovnik Museums)Croatia 2007 Guardian Guide, Pick of the Week, ‘Bad Moon Rising’, Jessica Lack, March 2004 John Moores 23 2004 Frieze Jan issue MOT Full English, Andrew Hunt 2002 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2002 Art Review, ArtGraduate –The Best of The Graduate Shows - - - COLLECTIONS: - - Mario Testino ,Cornelia Parker and Jeff Mcmillan, Frank Williams, Julian Opie Arthur G Rosen, David and Serenella Ciclitiras, - Amlin plc. Other private Collections in New York and Greece - - - ARTIST STATEMENT: - Landscape has been a recurring theme in Bennett’s work for the last few years, first represented in her intricate paper collages and more recently in large scale paintings – characters, often solitary, both human and animal drift in and out of the work. She implies a narrative but it’s non-specific. Bennett sources references from childhood vacations, novels, fairytales and landscape painting to direct experience of contemporary urban and rural landscapes. Other things enter, like other paintings, art history, music, film, literature… With this in mind she creates timeless environments that evoke the sublime and pathways that lead us toward the unknowable.