Denise Startin

Denise Startin is an artist, writer, researcher and collector. Her current practice and research are organised around four routes, place, memory, history and identity. She is particularly engaged with concepts of heritage, landscape, archaeology, performativity, representation, narrative, mapping and embodied entanglements. Denise studied at the Royal College of Art and her practice encompasses moving image, photography, printmaking, site-based interventions, installation, critical and performance writing. She uses various strategies of production including image and text, autobiography, polyphony, the intimate and fact and fiction, a continually recurring relation is the tension between public and private realms. During this process a historical figure, site, place, event, voice or voices are adopted to activate the work and produce a narrative arc.

Place has long been a theoretical, philosophical and practical concern woven throughout her practice. Denise is particularly interested in the concept of place as a dynamic network of relations that is co-created and continually mapped which contributes to and affects how autobiographical identity is situated. Denise is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in the Place-based and...

2023-2026 PhD Candidate, University of Leeds, Place based and site responsive practice
2013 MA Royal College of Art (With Distinction in research)
2009 BA (Hons.1st Class) Fine Art, Coventry University

2025 Practice holds Discovery, PGR Group Exhibition, East Street Arts, St.Mary’s Lane, Leeds
2024 Hints for British Tourists, Solo Show, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Little Elborow Street, Rugby
2022/23 Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Little Elborow Street, Rugby
2022 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, The Fireworks Factory, No.1 Street, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London
2022 RBSA Prize Exhibition, 4 Brook Street, St.Paul’s Square, Birmingham
2022 Hints for British Tourists, Solo Show, CT20 Gallery, 73 Tontine Street, Folkestone
2022 Fronteer Independent Art Fair, CASC Gallery, Northgate Street, Chester
2022 Hints for British Tourists, Solo Show, City Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
2022 Warwickshire Open Studios, Holyhead Studios, Coventry
2022 Royal Cambrian Academy, Open Competition, Conwy, Wales