Coquette Cornucopia
Venue • Walcot Chapel • BA1 5UG • click for map
Opening night • Fri 23 May • 6pm until late
Open 12noon to 5.30pm daily • 24 May to 7 June 2025
Featuring 18 artists across multiple disciplines, this exhibition invites audiences into a multisensory exploration of ritual and gathering through sculptural tablescape installations. Rooted in the ethos of “breaking bread”, the show centers on how communal settings and ceremonial objects transcend function to become vessels of meaning, memory, and connection.
Exhibiting artists:
Amanda Hall, Alice Corile, Angel Greenham, Carmi Lola, Dottie-May Aston, Ellie Spink, Grace Duncan, Holly Lewin, Juliet Cook, Kate McDonnell. Katherine Oram, Kitty Mills, Kristina Hughes, Leah Jelf, Lola Bennett, Rhea Morton, Victoria Bone, Wen-Hsi Harman
I’ve Got No One to Invite to Dinner by Lola Bennett (2023/2024) photo credits: Gabriella Tiğoğlu
I’ve Got No One to Invite to Dinner by Lola Bennett (2023/2024) photo credits: Gabriella Tiğoğlu
I’ve Got No One to Invite to Dinner by Lola Bennett (2023/2024) photo credits: Gabriella Tiğoğlu
Curated by Lola Bennett
Curator Lola Bennett, photo by Jonathan Cochrane
Lola Bennett is a multidisciplinary artist, primarily working in ceramics & textiles.
Bennett is a 2023 Bath Spa University Creative Arts Practice graduate, received the Spike Island Bath Spa Fellowship 2023/2024 and is currently a resident at Emerge Studios in Bath. Her practice is rooted in themes of nostalgia, pain, isolation and loss.
Bennett aims to evoke ideas that explore perceptions of ‘female artwork’; including: hierarchies in art, craft and female labour. Using heritage-based female crafts, in particular quilting and needlepoint, to deconstruct preconceived notions and narratives, of not only these processes, but the dark underbelly of domestic and everyday life.
Bennett’s background in textiles and reflection on her rural American upbringing has produced an illustrative style that combines early 2000s tattoo imagery, quilt and embroidery motifs, suggestions of country life and kitsch naïveté. This realm of references and imagery adorn her work as a form of storytelling and nostalgic-comfort.
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