Henrietta Dent is an artist and artisan based in London. She explores materiality and the lived environment by working with experimental hand-weaving in two and three dimensions.
She is fascinated by the physicality of drawing with thread, working with processes and materials that are unique, flawed, or left behind—off-cuts, miscoloured dye batches, and found objects.
A metaphor for her practice is the handloom she weaves on, which she restored from reclaimed pieces of a 1950s floor loom into a unique working object.
BIO
Henrietta Dent (b.1996) studied at Manchester School of Art before graduating from the Royal College of Art where she gained an MA in Textiles, specialising in Weave. Dent has won prizes including the Zoffany Visual Arts Award, UK, 2022 and the Coats Foundation Trust Sponsorship Award, 2020. In addition, she has exhibited work nationally and internationally, including Planet-Saving Innovations at Fabrica X, London Craft Week, UK, 2024; Crossing Through the Spike Isle at Wutong Gallery, Nanjing, 2023; Thinking Through Making Symposium at Kings College London, 2022; No.43, Atelier LK, London, UK, 2021; Further Than the Eye Can See, London, UK 2021; Precious Waste, London Design Festival, UK, 2018. In 2024 she created a large-scale woven installation for Burberry, Frankfurt. Currently, she is working with Atelier LK for a project based in the US.
