Henrietta Armstrong – ‘The Soul Has Two Eyes’

31/07/25 till 06/08/25

Henrietta Armstrong is a London-based artist working across sculpture, installation, and print. Her practice engages with ritual objects, sacred forms, and the symbolism of protection and power. Using materials such as wax, resin, and cast metal, Armstrong creates relic-like works that blur the boundary between artefact and offering.

In her recent work, she draws on religious iconography, folklore, and feminist mythology, foregrounding figures such as saints, cursed women, and mythical beings to explore systems of belief and the remnants they leave behind. Often working within shrine like installations, she reimagines ceremonial space as a site for reflection on inherited stories, unseen forces, and fractured devotion.

Her exhibition The Soul Has Two Eyes takes inspiration from the martyrdom of Saint Lucy and the serpentine mythology of Medusa, foregrounding the figure of the saint, the cursed, and the silenced to create a contemplative space for vision, silence, and symbolic transformation. Saint Lucy, often viewed as a queer saint, is said to have gouged out her own eyes to deter male desire, an act of radical self possession that continues to resonate as a symbol of refusal and resistance.

Armstrong is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Recent exhibitions include Monuments to a Vanishing with HS Projects, London; Entangled at Saatchi Gallery; Sex Sells – Beyond The Historical Matrix at Semjon Contemporary, Berlin; Take A Seat – HA.LF x Bow Arts FRIEZE Takeover, London; The Garden of Delights on Earth at Gallery 46, London; HOW LONG IS FOREVER at G37 Galerie, Berlin; and the solo exhibition Sanctum Futurum: Relics and Forbidden Desires at Liminal Gallery, Margate. Her work is held in the Soho House permanent collection and private collections internationally.

She studied Fine Art at the Sir John Cass School of Art and lives and works in London.

Private View:

Friday the 1st of August 5-9pm