Denise Kwan

Denise is a researcher, writer and art maker. She is interested in the sculptural sensibility of language and views writing as textured sketches that gather folds of time and cultures. Language becomes an agile and sculptural material that allows an inhabitation of multiple spaces which momentarily give form to experiences unnamed and sensations re-felt.

Through her writing, Denise is interested in how words and utterances can hang upon the material and the visual world. This has led her to publish writing for ArtReview and CCQ Magazine. In 2014, her writing was selected by Harmonious Society Award for Art Criticism and shortlisted by Wales in Venice life / art writing in 2019.

Working across social practice, visual ethnography and material culture, through her PhD, she collaborated with a group of first generation Chinese women and created a bi-lingual Cantonese-English art school at Haringey Chinese Community Centre, London. This can be found at: objectstories.co.uk

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