Taking inspiration from ideas around modernity and escapism, Lisa Denyer's practice looks at materiality and the transportive potential of paint. The work is influenced by traditional landscape art forms, notions of foreground and background, movement and structure. Form and colour are given careful consideration, often referencing every day observations. Spatial themes are explored and emphasised through wide scale compositional experimentation using collage.
Taking inspiration from ideas around modernity and escapism, Lisa Denyer's practice looks at materiality and the transportive potential of paint. The work is influenced by traditional landscape art forms, notions of foreground and background, movement and structure. Form and colour are given careful consideration, often referencing every day observations. Spatial themes are explored and emphasised through wide scale compositional experimentation using collage.
Supports are handmade using wood, hardboard or plywood. These materials are selected for their textual qualities and their ability to withstand multiple layers of paint. The handling of paint and the interaction between the medium and the raw surface upon which it is applied is a primary consideration within Denyer's practice, as she investigates the capacity that paintings have to be substantial, self contained, weighty objects in their own right.
Denyer's visual language contrasts the architecturally inspired hard edges of geometric abstraction with spontaneous, energetic brush strokes. Her process is one that is open to diversion as she intuitively responds to inherent qualities of the medium and sets to work an interplay that allows the materiality of paint to direct her actions. The abstract nature of the work renders its symbolism open to interpretation, however the viewer is invited to consider broad themes of the organic, the artificial, transience and entropy.
Lisa Denyer–Visual Artist
Email:
[email protected]
Selected Exhibitions:
30/7/16– 15/10/16 'Contemporary British Painting Summer Exhibition' at Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
26–29/5/16, 'Precious Little' at Platforms Project at Art–Athina, Athens
8–22/5/16, 'Precious Little' at HMS Exhibition Space, Nottingham
22–24/4/16, 'Salon 8' at The Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford
21/4/16–1/5/16, 'Window' at Artists Workhouse, Studley, with Pluspace, Coventry
7/4/16–14/5/16, 'Paintings as Objects' solo exhibition at PS Mirabel, Manchester
30/1/16–24/4/16, 'Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare, Part III' at Dean Clough, Halifax, with PAPER, Manchester, in collaboration with Charlie Smith, London
3/11/15–2/1/16, 'Contemporary British Painting Group Show' at St Marylebone Crypt, London
31/10/15–12/12/15, 'Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare, Part I' at PAPER, Manchester, in collaboration with Charlie Smith, London
10/9/15– 24/10/15, 'PS Mirabel Open' at Mirabel Studios, Manchester
11–12/7/15, 'Manifest Arts Festival' at PAPER Studio, Manchester
12–26/3/15, 'Twitter Art Exhibit' at Moss Library, Norway
28/2/15–11/4/15, 'Contemporary British Abstraction' at SE9 Container Gallery, London
15/11/14–8/3/15, ‘@PaintBritain’ at Ipswich Art School Gallery
1/11/14–31/3/15, ‘Contemporary British Painting’ at Huddersfield Art Gallery
25/10/14–28/11/14, ‘Grey’ at HMS Exhibition Space, Nottingham
17–20/7/14, ‘Society of Island Universes’ at Piccadilly Place, Manchester
19–29/6/14, ‘About Painting’ at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
15/3/14–10/5/14, ‘We’ll show you ours’ at Gallery Oldham
7/2/14–2/3/14, ‘Geode’ solo exhibition at South Square Gallery, Thornton
28/11/13–21/12/13, ‘New Perspectives in Painting’ at The Studios Gallery, New Mills
3–24/11/13, ‘Painting Too’ at HMS Exhibition Space, Nottingham
6–22/9/13, ‘Form/Function’ at Piccadilly Place, Manchester
31/8/13, ‘Now you see it, now you don’t’ at Terrace Gallery, London
24/8/13–28/9/13, ‘Artifice’ at PS Mirabel, Manchester
6/6/13–7/7/13, ‘Meditations’ at Pluspace, Meter Room, Coventry
12–17/3/12, ‘Contemporary Printmaking: From Andy Warhol To The Emerging Generation’ at Store Street Gallery, London
8–25/9/11, ‘No.1 Paint’ at Blankspace, Manchester
10/11/10–4/12/10, ‘Lisa Denyer’ solo exhibition at Gate Foot Gallery, Cumbria
26/11/08–27/5/09, ‘Lisa Denyer’ solo exhibition at Coventry Artspace
Collections:
Priseman-Seabrook Collection
Awards:
Shortlisted for Greater Manchester Arts Prize 2016
Received first prize in the PS Mirabel Open 2015, exhibition at PS Mirabel, Manchester
Received #Axisweb100, April 2015
Short listed for the Bankley Open 2013/2014/2015, exhibitions at Bankley Gallery, Manchester
Short listed for the Title Art Prize 2011, exhibition at Blankspace, Manchester
Short listed for the Salon Art Prize 2010, exhibition at Matt Roberts Arts Project Space, London
Received second prize in the Gilchrist Fisher Award 2010, exhibition at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Residencies:
25–26/6/15 and 8–9/7/15, 'MSB' artists’ exchange through Castlefield Gallery and Eastside Projects, held at Third Floor Project Space, Manchester, and Bloc Projects, Sheffield
8–9/5/14 and 5–6/6/14, 'C PAGES' artists’ exchange through Castlefield Gallery and Eastside Projects, held at Toast, Manchester, and Stryx, Birmingham
10/2/14–20/7/15, Residency at Federation House, supported by Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
5–14/8/13, ‘Catalyst’ Residency at Piccadilly Place, supported by Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Art Fairs:
Art–Athina 2016, Athens, with HMS Exhibition Space
Sluice 2015, London, with PAPER
Manchester Contemporary 2015, with PAPER
Art–Athina 2015, Athens, with HMS Exhibition Space
Affordable Art Fair 2010, London, with Orion Contemporary
Selected Press:
a-n 'Paintings as Objects' press release 2016
https://www.a-n.co.uk/events/paintings-as-objects
Roller Gallery 'Lisa Denyer' online exhibition 2015
http://www.rollergallery.co.uk/lisa-denyer/4589391622
Patterns That Connect ‘About Painting’ review 2014
https://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/?s=about+painting
Castlefield Gallery ‘About Painting’ press release 2014 http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/event/launch-pad-about-painting/
Pluspace 'Lisa Denyer' interview 2014
http://pluspace.com/documents/docs/lisadenyer.pdf
Traction Magazine ‘Lisa Denyer’ interview 2014 http://tractionmagazine.co.uk/post/86396545544/lisa-denyer
Studio Critical ‘Lisa Denyer’ interview 2014
http://studiocritical.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/lisa-denyer.html
Pattern’s That Connect ‘The Paintings of Lisa Denyer’ review 2014 http://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/the-paintings-of-lisa-denyer/
South Square Gallery ‘Geode–Lisa Denyer’ press release 2014 http://www.southsquarecentre.co.uk/index.php?/centre/feb-14/
Patterns That Connect ‘Painting Too at Harrington Mill’ review 2013
https://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/?s=painting+too
Bankley Gallery ‘Q&A with Lisa Denyer’ interview 2013 http://bankley.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/qa-with-lisa-denyer/
Patterns That Connect ‘Form/Function at Piccadilly Place Manchester’ review 2013
https://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/?s=form+function
Patterns That Connect ‘Meditations at Pluspace Coventry’ review 2013
http://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/meditations-at-pluspace-coventry/
Abstract Critical ‘Treatment: An Exhibition of Contemporary Abstraction’ review 2013 http://abstractcritical.com/note/treatment-an-exhibition-of-contemporary-abstraction/
Patterns That Connect ‘Quick! Get Treatment at PS Mirabel’ review 2013
https://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/?s=treatment
