About

Louise Benton (b.1995) interrogates the visual and material language of Catholicism to examine sexuality, femininity and power. Working across stained glass, printmaking and painting, she reconfigures the architectures of belief, focusing on thresholds where the divine is staged and made visible.

Her recent work draws on relic culture, medieval mysticism and courtly romance to position desire as a condition that is both devotional and embodied. Stained glass sculptures of cherubs and fragmented forms reference reliquaries, collapsing distinctions between sacred and romantic longing through strategies of fragmentation and illumination.

Benton’s work challenges the authority of religious forms by softening their monumentality and reimagining them through a feminine lens. In doing so, she shifts sacred imagery away from doctrine and toward ambiguity, intimacy and the complexities of lived experience.

Benton is currently an artist in residence with The Florence Trust. She holds an MA History of Art from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. She recently completed a residency with Soho Revue, and has shown at Greatorex Street, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her solo show, Lovesick, is open at Soho Revue, 22nd April - 31st July.