HETTIE INNISS

Working from her involuntary memories, Inniss takes a Proustian approach to making, focusing on the unexpected moments where our senses are stimulated and the mind transports us to familiar or uncanny spaces. The senses aid her orientation of the materials; exploring for example how a memory might taste or sound, and how the application of paint can reflect those sensations. This intimate practice allows Inniss to combat rigid ideas of representation, advocating for Black Fluidity as a more liberating way of being.

Inniss graduated from the Painting MA course at the Royal College of Art, London (UK) in 2023, where she was awarded the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship in 2022.

This year she was included in the Artsy Vanguard 2025, an annual feature highlighting the most promising artists working today and was recently commissioned by ZELDA Art (UK) to create a site- specific painting for a client located in Bishopsgate, London (UK).

Selected exhibitions: Beyond these Walls, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now, curated by Tom Morton, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US); Everything Soup, GRIMM, New York, NY (US), 2024; Rememories from the Floating World, GRIMM, London (UK), 2024; Digestif - [diːʒɛˈstiːf], Palazzo Monti, Italy (IT), 2024; Episode 1: Bump, Matt Carey-Williams, London (UK), 2024; The Painted Room, curated by Caroline Walker, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2023; and I Don’t Paint What I See, Berntson and Bhattacharjee, Fitzrovia, London (UK), 2023.

Selected collections: AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); The Al Thani Collection (FR); Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg (DE) and Reading, VT (US); Longlati Foundation, Shanghai (CN); The Lakeside Collection (NL); The New Light Collection (IT); and The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX (US), among others.

Courtesy GRIMM, Amsterdam/London/New York.