Denise Bryan works across media, making objects, photographic series, installations and performance pieces. Her studio increasingly resembles a Scrap Store, Bryan can't stop collecting things that have the potential to become objects; sculptures that have been described as "Hands on Conceptualism". The materials used to create these sculptures always have a conceptual value that underpins
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
May 2015 - Assembly, Der Spiegelsaal shown as part of a series of 3 solo sculpture shows, curated by the artist, Central Space Gallery, London
April 2014 - Milchhof to Mauer, solo exhibition of drawings at Salon Flo, Berlin
April 2014 – Der Spiegelsaal, Installation, The Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
July - Sept 2007 – …and the time is now, Babylon, Ely
January - March 2007 – …and the time is now, solo exhibition project with the Oriental Museum Durham
July - October 2006 - SILKTHREADS: A journey to China, exhibition project with The Silk Museum, Macclesfield.
February 1997 - HAIRDRESSING, Diorama Gallery, London
June 1995 - SURFACING, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
PERFORMANCE WORKS
June 2015 - Spinning Threads, part of inTRANSIT Festival, Kensington Town Hall, London
July 2007 – performance piece, river bank, Ely
March 2006 - RITES OF WAY, performance piece as part of QUEST: THE ARTIST AS PILGRIM, OVADA Gallery and PILGRIMAGE: A SACRED JOURNEY, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Jauary 2004 - Hair Burqa, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
November 2015 - Re Assemble, The Glass Tank Gallery, Oxford, curated by Denise Bryan
June/July 2014 – Art-itecture, BAR Gallery, London
June 2014 – Aus/Blick Material/Buch, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
May 2013 – Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London. Selected by Paul Noble
October 2012 – FACK#1, Kensington and Chelsea College, London
June 2012 – SOMMERHITS, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
June 2006 – TURKISH BATH, Installation at the Victoria Baths, Manchester, part of
Expo Manchester organised by Sonic Arts Network
January 2003 - CHOCKERFUCKINGBLOCKED, Jeffery Charles Gallery, London
2000/1 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH – touring exhibition at various venues L.A. California and London
September 2000, ANP CITY PROJECTS - Century Gallery, London, (co curated)
July 2000 – ANP SHOW, Gallery S and H De Buck, Ghent, Belgium
March 1999 - FIN DE SIECLE, Riverside Studios, London (co curated)
December 1998 – DeFeSo, ANP Gallery Antwerp, Belgium
November 1998 - UN APRES MIDI SUR CRÈME BRULEE ANGLAISE DANS UN JARDIN POPULAIRE, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
October 1998 - ETHEREAL, Centre Point Gallery London
July 1997 - ANGELUS NOVUS TOUR, THE LONDON LEG, Centre Point Gallery and Central Space Gallery London
October 1994 - SIGNALS NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS,
April 1994 - Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, BURSARY WINNERS SHOW
1993 - Installation, Beacon Gallery, Loughborough