Willabel Grindley Bennett is a multi-disciplinary artist based on Dharug and Gundungurra Country in the Blue Mountains. Willabel's practice is raw, and experimental, a therapeutic outlet to process emotion and express beauty. She explores new techniques using a breadth of mediums and incorporating new and found materials. Her work incorporates organic lines and shapes found in the human form and the natural environment.

Central to her practice is being a woman with autism. The meticulous attention to detail, the accumulation of small, repeated marks into a larger whole is her way of moving through the world. Repetition in her work is never mechanical; it is meditative. The careful, patient act of mark-making serves simultaneously as emotional regulation, creative expression, and when called for quiet protest. Through the process of creating, there is a self-soothing that becomes inseparable from the work's meaning. Her versatility to different mediums and subject matters mirrors her life experience in her resilience and adaptability to challenges and experiences.

Through exploring her own vulnerabilities, and the vulnerability of the natural environment Willabel seeks to enact change. The process of using recycled materials, mirrors the subject: something discarded, reimagined, given new life. In a society that at times can make us feel invisible and excluded, Willabel allows the audience to feel hopeful. She seeks to empower people through visuals to convey hope, compassion, justice, and growth, as art itself is a form of resistance.

She is working toward a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings these threads together, one that invites audiences to experience the world as she does: through feeling, through sensing, through the beauty and complexity of being fully, vulnerably alive.