Louise Bennetts

She led Research and Development for ReWeave, an innovative textile re-use design agency founded by Kirsty McDougall, from 2021-23. Expanding this specific sustainable material focus, she worked with Faber Futures in 2022, designing an outerwear piece dyed using their innovative bacteria-based Mbeu technique, which was showcased at the Design Museum, London 2023-24. She has collaborated with fine artists, working with Cecilia Vicuña on sourcing, combining and constructing a myriad of materials for her Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission in 2022. She has worked with Do Ho Suh since 2021, specifically on designing and making the Survival Suit, part of his ongoing Bridge Project, a recent iteration of which was showcased at Art Sonje, Seoul, in 2024. Her first curatorial project, in collaboration with Rachel Dedman, was the State of Fashion Biennale 2024 | Ties that Bind, in Arnhem. She has also taught widely, lecturing on fashion and textiles courses at the Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London and Edinburgh College of Art.

In her personal practice, based in Edinburgh, she creates various unique textiles for interior contexts created from locally sourced and remnant materials. These are showcased at Bard, a gallery of contemporary Scottish craft, with whom she will be launching a collaborative collection in 2025.