Henrietta Dent is a London-based artist working between experimental tapestry, sculpture, and drawing.
Fusing traditional hand techniques with raw materiality and multi-dimensional open-weave forms, she treats the loom as a structural canvas to invite intimate explorations of labour, time, and spatial experience.
At the heart of her practice is her handloom, an object she restored from reclaimed pieces of a 1950s loom, transforming it into a unique working extension of her body. "The act of weaving" is an all-consuming, crucial element to her work: it is a means to connect with the hand, physically capture the passage of time, and reframe the way we interact with and value matter.
BIO
Henrietta Dent is an alumnus of the Royal College of Art (2022). Dent has won prizes, including the Zoffany Visual Arts and Coats Foundation Trust Sponsorship Award. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally, including the Royal Academy of Arts, Fabrica X, London Craft Week, London Design Festival, Wutong Gallery Nanjing, King's College London, Atelier LK, and Manchester Craft & Design Centre.
Collaborative projects have taken place at Somerset House and the Young V&A. Clients who have commissioned work include Atelier LK, and the largest completed work to date for Burberry in Frankfurt. She has presented at symposiums and lectures for the Royal College of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Ruskin Art Prize. Her work has been featured in publications including Crafters of Today, Il Riformista, Ansa Brazil and PhotoVogue.
