Group Shows/Exhibition’s/Events

Curatorial Projects

Somer Store, Consignment Artist (2025)No6 Bartlett Street, Bath

Curious Minds Festival, Holburne Up Late(March 2025)Holburne Museum, Bath 

Fusion, RUH (2025) Royal United Hospital, Bath

‘Two Days’: A (anti) exhibition of unfinished artworks (2025)Kit Form Gallery, Bristol

Instructions Not Included: a exhibition exploring how women and girls feel about aging (2024)Kit Form Gallery, Bristol 

GIRLS + GUTS, Fringe Arts Bath Festival (2024)Studios 44ad, Bath 

Spike Open Studios (2024)Spike Island, Bristol
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

OverSounds (2024)Roseberry Road Studios, Bath

Bath Open Art Prize (2023)Studio 44ad, Bath

Crawl Space, Fresh Salad Art Collective(2023) The Crypt, London

Aquae Sulis (2023)Barge House, OXO Tower, London

Bath Spa University Graduate Show (2023)

Stray Threads & Sludge, Fringe Arts Bath Festival (2023)Curator, Newark Works, Bath

Leaving Home Exhibition (2023)Solo Show, at The Micheal Pennie Gallery, Bath Spa Locksbrooke Campus

Unstable Monuments Bristol through Offstage 2 Collective (2022)Old magistrates Court, Bristol

Residencies

Emerge Studio Resident, Bath Uk (2024/2025)

MERGE at Back Swan Arts, Frome Uk(2025)

Spike Island Graduate Fellowship, Bristol Uk (2023/2024)

Education

Ba (Hon) Creative Arts Practice from Bath Spa University (2021/2023)

Brighton University Ba in Fashion design and business(2019/2020)

Bath college Art and Design foundation(2018/2019) 

(Upcoming) Soft Rebellion, Holburne Up LateCo-curated with Lily Serendipity. Holburne Museum, Bath

Coquette Cornucopia, Fringe Arts Bath Festival (2025)Curator & presenting artist. Walcot Chapel, Bath

The Corridor, Spike Island (2024)Collaborative exhibition with Lou Baker, Spike Island, Bristol

Stray Threads & Sludge, Fringe Arts Bath Festival (2023)Curator, Newark Works, Bath

Leaving Home Exhibition (2023) Solo Show at The Michael Pennie Gallery, Locksbrook Campus, Bath Spa

Lola Bennett is a 2023 Bath Spa University graduate with a first class degree in Creative Arts Practice, as well as the 2023/2024  Spike Island Graduate Resident Fellowship recipient. Bennett is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice weaves ceramics and textiles to explore themes of nostalgia, memory, vulnerability, and the complexities of domestic & young adult life, in particular isolation. Drawing from her background in heritage-based crafts like quilting and needlepoint, Bennett’s work reflects on the narratives embedded in traditional female labor and challenges  perceptions of craft and art.

Central to Bennett’s practice is a focus on the narratives held by objects and the intimacy of handmade processes. Her ceramic and textile-based pieces act as both functional objects and storytelling vessels, adorned with whimsical motifs and evocative imagery inspired by Americana, early 2000s tattoo culture, rural settings and naively kitsch aesthetics. These elements create a dialogue between comfort and discomfort, inviting viewers to reflect on the dualities of connection and isolation, domesticity and individuality, and ritual and routine.

Through a process-driven approach, Bennett employs repetitive and meditative methods, embracing imperfections to highlight  the act of making itself as integral to the work. Her work often takes the form of large-scale “collection installations,” such as sculptural tablescapes and reinterpreted everyday objects, designed to evoke feelings of familiarity and nostalgia, in juxtaposition to the isolation & over consumption crisis of modern life.Grounded in her rural American upbringing and apprenticeships in ceramics, textiles, and goldsmithing, Bennett’s practice is a deeply personal yet universal exploration of craft’s potential to create shared experiences. Her installations and objects prompt audiences to reconsider the narratives embedded in everyday forms and the roles of craft in contemporary art and life.

Photo by Johnny Cochrane