artists Louise Benton
Louise Benton
Drawing on Catholic iconography, Louise Benton
creates works that transform sacred symbols into
subversive narratives of feminine freedom.
creates works that transform sacred symbols into
subversive narratives of feminine freedom.
Drawing on Catholic iconography, Louise Benton creates works that transform sacred symbols into subversive narratives of feminine freedom.
Louise Benton’s practice engages with the symbolic language of Catholicism, using it as a framework to consider contemporary ideas of femininity and lived experience. Drawing on personal memories and the monumental presence of cathedrals, she works across stained glass and ceramics to create objects that both reference and reconfigure sacred traditions.
In glass, she adorns panels with mythological figures, soldering them into windows that evoke devotion while shifting toward new narratives. Her ceramic works, likewise, explore duality, oscillating between the functional and the sculptural, the historical and the contemporary
