Existence Painting

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.