Louise Bennetts

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	<title>Louise Bennetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:07:33 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>Hinterlands</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:06:46 +0000</pubDate>

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	Hinterlands &#124; Mote 102, Leith &#124; September 2025


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My work considers fabric as architectural form, creating spaces and textures with cloth that can be worn on the body, or can dress the home. Light and layering play integral roles to both, harnessing fabric’s compelling contradictions as a provider of structure and delicacy, of weight and softness.
Hinterlands tells two concurrent stories of provenance: a life lived behind behind&#38;nbsp;the coastline of North Edinburgh, and a journey of materials.&#38;nbsp;Taking a tactile line for a wander, fabrics&#38;nbsp;are&#38;nbsp;softly transformed&#38;nbsp;from one state to another, creating&#38;nbsp;textile&#38;nbsp;works gently suspended in space. 


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&#60;img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77323d08fe8b10582df9bf776931eb606cc15c6e15fff86fe5e82dabe75370ab/Hinterlands_LouiseBennetts_HighRes-4.jpg" data-mid="238714334" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77323d08fe8b10582df9bf776931eb606cc15c6e15fff86fe5e82dabe75370ab/Hinterlands_LouiseBennetts_HighRes-4.jpg" /&#62;Of PlaceAgnes (Nessie) McKay Smith was my grandmother. Born in West Cromwell Street, Leith, she died only 6km away, at Lauriston Farm Road. A coil-winder’s daughter, Nessie left behind a westwards-weaving, coastal trail of addresses: a christening on Constitution St, teenage years by the Water of Leith, a wedding in Pilton, a daughter in Wester Drylaw and a final footprint in Silverknowes.

Retracing Nessie’s steps took me to places ossified in history, and to those utterly transformed since she knew them. Through a series of photographs, traced into abstracted drawings, I have layered her history with my present, creating soft monuments to our ever-changing urban fabric.


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The space at Mote is intentionally blurred with that of my studio—the work, and the process sketches and swatches that inform it, are all in full view. I was keen to expose the often unseen, outer edges of the design journey as much as exhibit its final destination. I travelled to various Scottish mills to source remnant material from their production processes and combined them with fabric remnants from my own past projects, often created years apart. In mingled compositions of aerial views and building elevations, they are stitched in dialogue together to create interior fabric facades.


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		<title>Urban Fabric</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:32:38 +0000</pubDate>

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	 Urban Fabric &#124; Custom Lane &#124; June 2026

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‘Urban Fabric’ was an collaborative exhibition presented by Louise Bennetts and David Lemm, two Edinburgh-based artists, whose practices share common concerns around making, place and process. Developed through varied material experimentation and manufacturing expertise, their distinct yet complimentary outcomes were forged independently but&#38;nbsp; presented in dialogue.


David’s ‘Formworks’ series uses fragments of the tramline construction debris from nearby Leith, assembled into dense framed compositions and bold floor-based sculptures. Louise’s pieces are, similarly, constructed curious of tactile debris. Remnant fabrics from her studio have been earth-pigment painted and dried against varied textures, picking up their patina, or left to weather outside, formed by the elements. Some compositions are pure exercises in material relationships and line, whilst other pieces entangle these fabrics in compositions derived from abstracted drawings of streetscapes, building plans and desire lines.&#38;nbsp;
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Louise has long been interested by provenance and place, what it means to move through and occupy cities that are themselves in a constant state of regenerative flux. 


Desire Lines I, II and III (above) considers 3 different experiences of walking through her local area, Marchmont, crafted in cloth painted in her back garden: local materials rendered to recall their very locality. She weaves together configurations derived from a blend of historic maps recording changing streetscapes, photography gathered by foot and contemporary street views of the wider area. Irregular building plans sweeping up a crescent are layered over the knotty line-markings of a junction, drawn into one linked composition, finding common line between differing routes through urban landscapes. The results are permeable, soft fabric facades, impossible to view without seeing the site of their installation through them.&#38;nbsp;
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The fabrics in these pieces are a mix of cotton organdie, and silk organza, gazar and habotai, many of which are remnant materials from the fashion industry. They have been painted with earth-pigments – ancient green earth, umber, iron oxide, or burnt sienna – washed by rain dried either hung outside or laid flat against varied textures. This results in unpredictable patinas, their surfaces wearing records of the weather or imprinted with the textures of what’s laid beneath them, in a manner satisfyingly similar to formworks cast concrete.


Most of these fabric fragments are salvaged from production offcuts of larger pieces, or development samples for other projects - errant experiments happily discovered en-route to another destination. Despite their seeming structural order, these pieces represent an unruly slice through time, as materials from projects spanning years are arranged into considered compositions or stacked strata. The process is inherently playful, unplanned and enjoyably unpredictable.


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Details of outdoor fabric painting using earth pigments:
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Details of ‘Formworks’ by David Lemm
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On Wednesday the 24th June Louise and David took part in a&#38;nbsp;Talks at the Lane evening: a conversational wander through their comparable routes of enquiry, considering how their ideas emerge and works unfold, and celebrating both their areas of overlap and their unique divergences. This was hosted by Natasha Huq of GRAS architects and welcomed &#38;nbsp;a lively audience from across Edinburgh’s creative sector.
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		<title>Earth Matters</title>
				
		<link>https://louisebennetts.com/Earth-Matters</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:02:05 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Louise Bennetts</dc:creator>

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	Earth Matters &#124; Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh &#124; March - Nov 2026

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‘The Unconformities’


Earth Matters marks 300 years since the birth of James Hutton, the Edinburgh-born farmer and writer who revolutionised our understanding of Earth’s creation and the ground beneath us. 


These suspended drawings in space each interpret John Clerk of Eldin’s illustrations for Hutton’s ‘Theory of the Earth’. The drawings were lost for nearly 200 years before their discovery in 1968, and remarkably were included in the exhibition just behind these pieces.


The textiles’ transparency recalls not only the folio pages of Eldin’s drawings, but also layers of geology and time. The shadows the pieces cast move around the room with the rhythm of the passing days and seasons. These works are not static, but rather actively change with time.

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Images above: James Stevens
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The textiles included in these works, cotton organdie and silk organza, have been hand-painted with European earth pigments, in various combinations and levels of dilution. They were created outside and hung on a line to dry, resulting in an organic ‘weathered’ feel to the fabrics. Wet days scattered and soaked the pigment into the cloth, whereas sunny days dried the pigments rapidly, freezing moving rivers of colour as they descended down to earth.


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Above: Textile research and development, February 2026
Below: Sir John Clerk of Eldin’s ‘Jedburgh’, ‘Castle St’ and ‘Salisbury Crags’. 
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		<title>Harvest</title>
				
		<link>https://louisebennetts.com/Harvest</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:40:23 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Louise Bennetts</dc:creator>

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	Harvest, by Craft Scotland &#124; City Art Gallery &#124; October 2025

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Taking a tactile line for a wander across their surface, this trio of cushions, Loop, Coil and Collage, are crafted from manufacture by-product material from Scottish mills. The cashmere selvedges usually discarded in industrial production processes are salvaged, snipped and stitched into new, seductively soft forms.
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Recalling the layered urban landscape of Edinburgh, this soft fabric facade is created from intersecting panels of silk and cotton organdie. As light travels through the piece, its complex composition comes to life, offering a subtle shade that shifts with the seasons.

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Images by Grant Anderson


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		<title>Bard x Lou Cushions 2025</title>
				
		<link>https://louisebennetts.com/Bard-x-Lou-Cushions-2025</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:45:36 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Louise Bennetts</dc:creator>

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	Cushion Collection &#124; Bard, Scotland &#124; August 2025

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In 2025 I was thrilled to develop a collection of cushions in collaboration with Scottish contemporary craft gallery, Bard. Using a range of byproduct material from the textile industry, I developed a variety of textures that softly explore different rocky motifs.

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These cushions have been created using selvedge from a Scottish cashmere mill, turning a by-product from their manufacturing into seductively stroke-able cushions. The cashmere strips are stitched into a black wool base and interspersed with gold tabs. The effect is like sedimentary rock with glints of gold embedded within.


Architectural Forms
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Using a combination of wool and cashmere offcuts, these cushions have been assembled from series of designs based on abstract drawings of Edinburgh’s architectural panoply. The geometric material appliqués result in a collection of elegant and graphic cushions, with a pleasing textural playfulness.

Felted Stones

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These cushions have been made by salvaging loom tape, preserving the messy edge left by industrial weaving. It is typically trimmed off before the cloth is rolled and sold to the garment industry. These long, messy centipedes have been sewed to a wool back cloth before boiling them to re-introduce structure to the fibres. The resulting textile becomes something closer to felt, recalling the material’s sheepy origins. 

Stacking Stones

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These freeform, hand-painted cushions, softly depict stacking and standing stones, on wool or linen-cotton blend bases. Originally painted as large landscape textiles, they’ve then been divided the painting into series of square and rectangular cushions, each bearing her brush marks as an abstract echo of the full composition they once belonged to.
Standing Stones
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All pieces are available at Bard’s beautifully curated space in Leith, Edinburgh, or online at&#38;nbsp;Bard, Scotland.
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Photographs by Murray Orr
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		<title>Sandstone and Castle Rock</title>
				
		<link>https://louisebennetts.com/Sandstone-and-Castle-Rock</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:21:18 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Louise Bennetts</dc:creator>

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	The Grit and The Glamour &#124; Bard, Scotland &#124; November 2023

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This is a textile work in two parts: the first consists of three layered silk hangings derived from the layered buildings and histories of Edinburgh; the second is hand-painted wool silk inspired by the stone crags and volcanic rocks, which are as much a part of the city as the built landscape. Like the work, there are layers of resonance with my own experience, both in relation to place and my relationship with textiles. I moved to Edinburgh to study here and then left and have only recently returned to live here again. The organza layers of textile are reminiscent of some of my early work, so there’s an aspect of layered time at play here too.

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&#60;img width="5994" height="3996" width_o="5994" height_o="3996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf311358780cb143f03873261af4f5019f48b7d6c1bf9a6903acfa8c7998048c/Upstairs-at-Bard-2.jpg" data-mid="197907300" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf311358780cb143f03873261af4f5019f48b7d6c1bf9a6903acfa8c7998048c/Upstairs-at-Bard-2.jpg" /&#62;Installation photographs by Murray Orr
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Fabric and detail shots are my own.

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Bard, Scotland

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		<title>Cecilia Vicuña Brain Forest Quipu</title>
				
		<link>https://louisebennetts.com/Cecilia-Vicuna-Brain-Forest-Quipu</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:03:58 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Louise Bennetts</dc:creator>

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Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu &#124; Tate Modern Turbine Hall &#124; 2022-23


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I was commissioned by Tate Modern to work collaboratively with the artist to source, develop and manufacture the materials used in two very large scale Quipu sculptures in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern.
 
The emphasis was on sustainably conscious material choices, and sourcing suppliers across the UK. This process was conducted remotely, with Cecilia splitting her time between New York and Chile.

More than 50 different materials were sourced, including plant fibres, animal fibres, woven and felted cloth and various forms of recycled and pulped paper and card. These were then manipulated and combined in countless techniques, many dipped into a variety of substrates such as clay, bio-resin and lime paint. Ultimately, the material ‘precarios’ we created were hung alongside mudlarked items from the Thames, gathered by local volunteers.

Material Research and Development, April-June 2022
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Once techniques and combinations had been established, the production took place at The Whitewall, Erith during July-August 2022. A large team was involved with this stage, encompassing a team of makers with sculpture, textiles and even jewellery backgrounds.


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The 4-week installation took place at the Turbine Hall, September 2022, with many items being made on-site before being hung. Cecilia&#38;nbsp;Vicuña worked in-person collaboratively with the team for this process, improvising the composition of the Quipu from the ground.

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The Brain Forest Quipu opened to the public in October 2022 and will remain until April 2023.

Cecilia Vicuña review - ‘the most moving Tate Turbina Hall installation for years’
*****

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http://www.ceciliavicuna.com/


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		<title>State of Fashion</title>
				
		<link>https://louisebennetts.com/State-of-Fashion</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:55:35 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Louise Bennetts</dc:creator>

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	State of Fashion Biennale &#124; Arnhem, with Bengaluru, Nairobi and Sao Paulo &#124; May - June 2024
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The 2024 edition of the State of Fashion Biennale, Ties that Bind, was held in Arnhem between May 17th and June 30th 2024, &#38;nbsp;and curated by Rachel Dedman &#38;amp; Louise Bennetts. 
This edition of the Biennale brought together creative practices in fashion, textiles and contemporary art from across the Global South. Ties that Bind critically examines notions of tradition, explores the political power of clothing, and spotlights alternative approaches to dominant fashion systems, through the work of artists and designers from all over the world. 
At the heart of this edition of the Biennale is a decentralised structure. Ties that Bind has unfolded across four places: the home site in Arnhem, and three sister sites in Nairobi (Kenya), Bengaluru (India) and São Paulo (Brazil). In each place, an interlocutor-curator – Sunny Dolat, Kallol Datta and Hanayrá Negreiros – was invited to develop a project that responded to the Biennale’s themes from their perspective, embedded in their local context and community.
In Arnhem, Ties that Bind celebrates fashion in an expanded field, through critical creative practices from over 20 countries. Artists and designers hail from regions including South America, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South and East Asia. 
The exhibition includes over 100 works spanning fashion, textiles, contemporary art, film, photography, and sculpture. Across four core themes, it asks: How are artists from the Global South addressing and contesting the colonial legacies embedded in clothing and cloth? How are designers evolving inherited traditions, and engaging with the urgencies of our time? 
 

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Dismantling Tradition&#38;nbsp;
 In this first theme, designers from across the Global South revel in the rich textile traditions they inherit, from weaving to quilting, paper-cutting to embroidery. Many address the colonial violence that marginalised historic practices, challenging reductive stereotypes about local identity, and evolving these legacies for new generations.


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Political Bodies Works here address the relationship between clothing and the political. Historically, the textile trade was entwined with colonial exploitation, but clothing has also long been a tool of resistance. Artists and designers the world over engage today with the potential and power of fabric and fashion: to challenge stereotypes around identity, origin and gender, to reflect upon migrant experience, to address the legacies of conflict, and to speculate on the future. 


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Designing Integrity 
This space highlights practices that are critically questioning exploitative global fashion systems and their impacts on the Global South. Combining creativity and innovation, designers across the world are pioneering novel solutions for waste textiles, supporting artisan makers, and prioritising transparency in complex supply chains.

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The Fabric of ShelterCloth acts as the foundation for our social and material lives. Clothes are the changeable, ephemeral homes through which we navigate the world, and the works in this section of the exhibition reflect upon this idea: of textiles as refuge, as architecture, as home. These poetic pieces harness the familiar intimacy of fabric. 

Across the local and global network of sites that collectively form this Biennale, the intention is to amplify the kinships and connectedness among artists and designers’ practices from all over the world, and to share the powerful human stories woven into what we wear.

The exhibition design is by Maison the Faux.
All images are by Eva Broekema.

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More information can be found on the State of Fashion website.
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		<title>Do Ho Suh</title>
				
		<link>https://louisebennetts.com/Do-Ho-Suh</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:47:02 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Louise Bennetts</dc:creator>

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	Do Ho Suh, R&#38;amp;D Projects &#124; Art Sonje and Tate Modern &#124; 2024-2025
Research and Development of Survival Suit Prototypes for The Bridge Project, 2024Mixed seam trials, patterns, maquettes, scale models and final full-scale latex suit, developed collaboratively with the artist during January-July 2024. Various samples and suit shown in Do Ho Suh ‘Speculations’ at Art Sonje, August-November 2024.

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Do Ho Suh, The Bridge Project (Survival Suit Prototypes), 2024, Mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo: Seowon Nam. Courtesy of Art Sonje Center ⓒ 2024. Art Sonje Center all rights reserved. 
서도호, &#38;lt;다리 프로젝트 (구명복 프로토타입)&#38;gt;, 2024, 혼합 재료, 가변 크기, 사진: 남서원. 제공: 아트선재센터. 
ⓒ 2024. Art Sonje Center all rights reserved. 
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«서도호: 스페큘레이션스» 설치 전경. 사진: 남서원. 제공: 아트선재센터. 
ⓒ 2024. Art Sonje Center all rights reserved.

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Research and Development Drawings included in ‘Walk the House’ at Tate Modern, May-October 2025

 
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Research and Development Images included in ‘Walk the House’ Catalogue, published by Tate Modern, October 2025&#60;img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec7d328936c066d8110d063bcb00d48004b887886a73ec02125c1db8d0e53e33/IMG_0744.jpg" data-mid="233917740" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec7d328936c066d8110d063bcb00d48004b887886a73ec02125c1db8d0e53e33/IMG_0744.jpg" /&#62;&#60;img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/262ae2e6bca6f64870f97e7ed38de9a8ff5a83f8c156ab91e73d22e5d7634a3c/IMG_0742.jpg" data-mid="233917738" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/262ae2e6bca6f64870f97e7ed38de9a8ff5a83f8c156ab91e73d22e5d7634a3c/IMG_0742.jpg" /&#62;


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Process images, Louise Bennetts July 2024
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