Denise Hickey

The materiality of objects and embodied experience plays a crucial role in activating spaces and opening to otherness. 

Selecting and manipulating materials of place, I look to make and transform ordinary objects into conveyors of meaning, provoking sensory experiences, enquiry and curiosity. Through the material nature of objects, dynamic environments are created making the viewers co-creators in the interpretive and iterative process. 

I find the thing, stuff, object states of matter particularly curious.

I have worked as an artist educator for more than 20 years. Working as an artist in residence in a variety of community, schools and educational settings. I am interested in exploring the terrain of contested spaces of habits and institutions within institutions.

I am currently a PhD student researching The Materiality of Meaning Making in Gallery Learning, a collaborative doctoral partnership between The National Gallery and Goldsmiths.

I seek out opportunities to work in conversation, collaboratively and collectively.