Crystal Bennes (Short Bio)
Visual Artist / Writer
Crystal Bennes is a visual artist and writer based in Scotland. Her practice critically examines the different ways in which power—whether political, financial, technological—is expressed in the world. This work is grounded in extensive research, field work and archival histories, and is expressed in a wide range of media including Jacquard tapestries, soap sculptures, photographs, publications, performance lectures, prints and meadows. Recent exhibitions include: When Computers Were Women, British Textile Biennial (2025); Klara and the Bomb (2025), NOUA, Norway; Betwixt (2024), Freelands Gallery, London; Platform (2023), Edinburgh Art Festival; and Flora Italica (2023), Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen. Between 2022 and 2024, she was artist-in-residence at Talbot Rice Gallery and the Edinburgh College of Art as Freelands Foundation Fellow, and in 2025 she was Dwell Here artist in residence at IMMA.
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