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 experiment; often incorporating traditional craft techniques to interrogate layered histories of migration, ritual and the female experience. Her abstract botanical work draws on floral symbolism not merely as an aesthetic subject, but as a site of tension. Flowers are maps and form: sensual yet symbolic, delicate yet charged with colour and light. Hendicott’s use of light, colour and layered abstraction plays with notions of nature as sublime.

In the studio, she continues to expand these ideas through a fascination with sacred imagery /iconography, writing poetry and responding to developing technologies that appear to intruude into the space of spirituality and community. 

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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. She presently works as a secondary school teacher, teaching English, Literature, Art, and Media Studies.

'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 signifier of both femininity and cultural heritage. It too has been cultivated, displaced, objectified, yet endures as a symbol of the beauty of nature and the transience of mortality.' Bianca Hendicott

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