Louise is an artist and designer working with fabric to create architectural forms and rhythmic interventions into existing bricks and mortar.
Building upon roots of interest in the built environment, she creates suspended drawings in space that that adorn walls and occupy interiors, adapting with the movement of daily light. Compositions are drawn from maps, street plans and fragments of building details, constructing complex planes of cloth that sit within and recall our very urban fabric.
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Sourcing widely from industrial waste streams, she seeks to transform textile through process rather than sourcing new, leaning into techniques which create their own unpredictable patina. Wool fringes are washed to shrink and felt, and earth pigment painting techniques are rendered outside at the mercy of the elements. Unravelled yarns, remnant end-materials or test pieces otherwise discarded, are captured, celebrated and crafted into poised pieces, held in soft suspense.
Her work has been exhibited at, and is stocked by, contemporary Scottish craft gallery Bard. In 2025 she held her first solo exhibition, Hinterlands, at independent art space Mote 102, Leith, which considered in cloth the various addresses of her late grandmother along Edinburgh’s northern coastline; as well as contributing to Harvest at City Art Gallery, Edinburgh. In 2026 she was commissioned to create 3 large-scale pieces for Earth Matters at Inverleith House, commemorating the tricenteary of geologist James Hutton followed by a collaborative exhibition, Urban Fabric, with artist David Lemm at design gallery Custom Lane.
Building upon roots of interest in the built environment, she creates suspended drawings in space that that adorn walls and occupy interiors, adapting with the movement of daily light. Compositions are drawn from maps, street plans and fragments of building details, constructing complex planes of cloth that sit within and recall our very urban fabric.
Sourcing widely from industrial waste streams, she seeks to transform textile through process rather than sourcing new, leaning into techniques which create their own unpredictable patina. Wool fringes are washed to shrink and felt, and earth pigment painting techniques are rendered outside at the mercy of the elements. Unravelled yarns, remnant end-materials or test pieces otherwise discarded, are captured, celebrated and crafted into poised pieces, held in soft suspense.
Her work has been exhibited at, and is stocked by, contemporary Scottish craft gallery Bard. In 2025 she held her first solo exhibition, Hinterlands, at independent art space Mote 102, Leith, which considered in cloth the various addresses of her late grandmother along Edinburgh’s northern coastline; as well as contributing to Harvest at City Art Gallery, Edinburgh. In 2026 she was commissioned to create 3 large-scale pieces for Earth Matters at Inverleith House, commemorating the tricenteary of geologist James Hutton followed by a collaborative exhibition, Urban Fabric, with artist David Lemm at design gallery Custom Lane.
Louise trained in fashion (MA RCA 2014) and worked in London for 10 years designing clothing and textiles for womenswear brand Roksanda and mixed-discipline studio Toogood, before pursuing a freelance portfolio career alongside a personal art practice.
She has worked collaboratively with bio-designers Faber Futures, sustainable textile consultancy ReWeave and conducted research and development for fine artists including Do Ho Suh and Cecilia Vicuña. Her work on these projects has been exhibited at London Fashion Week, the Design Museum and Tate Modern in London, Salone del Mobile in Milan and Art Sonje in Seoul. In 2024 she co-curated with Rachel Dedman the State of Fashion Biennale in Arnhem, and to date occupies a role on their Creative Advisory Committee.
She works from her studio in Marchmont, Edinburgh. To purchase work, discuss a comission or suggest collaborations, please get in touch.
email : louise@louisebennetts.com
instagram: @lou_bennetts
