Hettie Inniss

Hettie Inniss (b. 1999, London, UK) is a British-Caribbean painter whose immersive work investigates memory, identity, and the sensory dimensions of space. Living and working in London, Inniss employs paint to reconstruct architectural or semi-architectural interiors—charged by atmospheric cues, faint scent-triggers, and visceral textures—to evoke how spaces carry emotion, memory and layered experience. Her practice privileges abstraction, texture and colour over literal depiction, allowing interior spaces to become sites of psychological resonance rather than strict representation. Trained in fine art, she completed her BA in Art & Design at the University of Leeds in 2022, followed by an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London in 2023. During her MA she was awarded the prestigious Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship (2022) and later received a ColArt Winsor & Newton Bursary (2023). Inniss’s emerging recognition includes a commission by the Tate Collective (October 2023) to respond to a work in the Tate collection, and her inclusion in the 2025 edition of the Artsy Vanguard, a feature that highlights the most promising contemporary artists working today.