Bianca Hendicott is a South African-born, UK-based multidisciplinary artist whose recent work centres on botanical abstraction as a lens through which to explore femininity, identity, and cultural memory.

Her practice is rooted in drawing, painting, and experimental mark-making, often incorporating traditional craft techniques to interrogate layered histories of colonisation, migration, and the female experience. Her abstract botanical works draw on floral symbolism not merely as an aesthetic subject, but as a site of tension — a visual language for the intimate and surreal. Flowers, in her work, become maps and form: sensual yet symbolic, delicate yet charged with colour and light. Hendicott’s process is intuitive yet research-driven, embracing the fluidity of watercolour and the precision of line to evoke the shifting nature of self and place. Her use of light, colour, and layered abstraction plays with notions of still life as staged intimacy — the flower captured not just as a form, but as a trace of memory, sensuality, and dream.

In the studio, she continues to expand these ideas, exploring how symbolism, sacred imagery, poetry and dreamlike forms can speak to the overlapping terrains of identity, culture, and the female experience.

She has also written articles for publications such as "The Uncanny and AI Art: Contemplations on the Ethical Nature of AI Art and the Uncanny" and is interested in the future of art and crafts in an increasingly digitised world.

'Everything is linked in some manner, like the layers in petals or the lines in maps. Our identity and our culture is an intricate overlapping of many parts. The flower is a symbol of both femininity and cultural heritage. It can represent both a colonial past and a multicultural future. It is these layers I wish to explore.' Bianca Hendicott

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