Denise Mccabe

Denise McCabe is an exciting young artist determined to succeed. She opened her own studio and Gallery D32 in a rural area in Co. Monaghan, Ireland in 2016. Since then her work has been collected by private collectors throughout the country and internationally.

Denise McCabe'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.

B.A (Honours) Visual Arts Practice, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Co.Dublin

2022: SCAPE solo show, D32 Gallery, Ireland

2021: Kfest/Killorglin, Co.Kerry

2020: Exhalation solo show, D32 Gallery, Ireland

2019: Incognito, Solomon Gallery, Co. Dublin

2017: Annual Group Show, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Co. Waterford

2016: Drawing Breath solo show, In-spire Galerie, Dublin

2016: Solo show, D32 Studio and Gallery, Ireland

2013: Anail, Augustinian Abbey, Lorrha, Co. Tipperary

2011: Liminality, Iontas Gallery, Co. Monaghan

2010: Spaced Out, Unit 41-43 Moore Mall, Ilac Centre, Dublin 1

2009: Ink Drawings solo show, Iontas Gallery, Co. Monaghan

2009: Graduate Exhibition, Dun laoghaire Art, Design and Technology, Co. Dublin

2008: Threshold, Dun laoghaire Art, Design and Technology, Co. Dublin

2006: Roll on Exhibition, Dun laoghaire Art, Design and Technology, Co. Dublin