Denise McCabe
Co. Monaghan, Ireland
Denise McCabe grew up in a rural area in County Monaghan, Ireland. She received a B.A (Honours) in Visual Arts Practice in Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Co. Dublin in 2009. She currently resides and works in Co. Monaghan and opened her own studio and gallery D32 in 2016. Since then her work has been collected by private collectors throughout the country and internationally.
Denise's art making practice seeks to question the validity of traditional drawing gestures. Her work is a meditation on process and repetition, refusing the need to derive or represent intellectual meaning solely for the sake of being meaningful. She uses her breath to propel the ink to introduce a static composition and a feeling of constant movement. The final drawings are transparent in the sense that the accumulation of pigment is perfectly clear. Their structure and their process are laid bare. She aims to make the viewer attentive to the physicality of the drawings as well as their own psychological resonance.
