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'Orange Blossom' (2011) £850.00

'Orange Blossom' by Lucie Bennett
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35.5" x 32.5"

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ex VAT £708.33(ex.vat) €807.50(ex.vat) $1,161.66(ex.vat)
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'Orange Blossom' (2011)

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Screenprint with UV varnish on Somerset Satin, edition of 75
Signed by the artist

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scaled example six foot person & work to scale
 

Lucie Bennett

Lucie Bennett

Lucie Bennett’s interest in the female form has taken her to a new dimension in her latest series of works.  Retaining a female sensuality so reminiscent of her earlier works, Lucie Bennett uses line, shape and colour to glorious effect.

During study visits to make drawings at the Botanical Gardens at Kew, Lucie Bennett discovered uncanny similarities between plant forms and the occasionally florid structures of the body's internal organs. Many of the recent works began as drawings and collages inspired by these visits, and the resulting imagery is visceral and vaguely hallucinogenic. These new works are rich in enigmatic patterning, executed using bold colour combinations. Tubular, colonic shapes elide with what look like stylised fallopian tubes; fractal borders between lakes of contrasting colours switch between figure and ground and back again.

Underpinning the project is a post-Pop sensibility that delivers a strong graphic punch. This really comes into its own through her use of gloss paint on aluminium which, though painstaking and time-consuming to execute (and fraught with risk), nevertheless lends the works a physicality that would have been lost to more conventional painterly approaches. Her insertion here and there of a Lichtenstein-like drip motif seems like a witty comment on the dribbling viscosity of her chosen medium. Nor is she afraid to leave some areas of the brushed aluminium support unpainted, which adds a luxurious contrast to the adjacent fields of colour. Coriander Studio have worked with her to their usual exacting standard to produce a superb series of prints that reproduces those unpainted areas with great fidelity.

Lucie Bennett has exhibited widely from 2001, including several times in New York - at the prestigious Armory Show among others, and a solo exhibition of new work in London in 2011. Her work is on permanent display in London's Groucho Club, and she has been commissioned to create work for Selfridges and House of Fraser. Bennett's Wink adorned a Porsche at Silverstone in 2005 and her work has been featured on the BBC’s The Apprentice (alongside Rob and Nick Carter) and The Culture Show. Popular prints by Lucie Bennett include Pink Knickers, Red Felt Tip Girl, Green Felt Tip Girl and Thundercloud. Lucie Bennett gained a BA from Manchester Metropolitan University in Interactive Arts, graduating in 1997. She also studied at L’Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in France.

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