Biography
Denise McCabe is a visual artist from Co.Monaghan. Denise's practice stems from an interest in an investigation of drawing, the processes involved and the histories associated within it. Interested in the process of drawing, she has created an experimental procedure to introduce controlled chance and unpredictability in her work. In contrast to traditional pencil and paper contact techniques, where the artists’ motions are limited to hand and arm movements. She creates drawings independent of her own hand, using her breath to propel the ink to introduce a wide range of lines and shapes into her drawings. A whole life is manifested in a single breath. Each line in her drawings is formed by one single breath, making visible the essence of life force. Her breath becomes a medium of recording life as such. The resulting drawings offer shapes and lines that no human hand could achieve. Denise wants to push the medium of drawing to new extremes, questioning the definition of drawing.
