Heather Benning is a practicing artist whose work, rooted in the landscape of the Canadian prairies, has shown widely across North America and Europe. Benning completed an MFA at the Edinburgh College of Art. She has been nominated for the Sobey’s Art Award, and received two London (UK) International Creative Competition Awards. Her work has been reviewed and featured in The Paris Review, Canadian Art Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, PN Review, The Daily Mail, the CBC, Galleries West, Espace, Uppercase Magazine, Studio Magazine, Levure Litteraire and The National Post. Benning has led workshops and lectured at numerous Canadian and British universities and galleries, as well as at Cornell and Rhodes College in the United States. She is an educator, curator, adjudicator and is the current Director of the Art Gallery of Swift Current.