DENNI WATERHOUSE | «Days Like This»
26 Setembro 2024 16h00
DENNI WATERHOUSE
«Days Like This»
OPEN STUDIO | 26-27-28-29 September 2024
ARTIST TALK | 28 September, at 18:00
ARTIST TALK | 28 September, at 18:00
"Days Like This" is a series of drawings and etchings born from Denni's residency at Zaratan. The works delve into the human experience, particularly the theme of loss, as Denni reconstructs past events and memories. Through revisiting and reimagining these experiences, she invites us to appreciate the everyday moments of our lives, a practice she feels we should embrace more fully.
Denni's meticulous cross-hatching and laborious drawing style suggests an immersion in both the artwork and the recreated moment, allowing for reflection and the recognition of profound significance within the seemingly 'smaller' moments of daily existence.
During her time at Zaratan, in addition to her large-scale drawings, Denni has also explored printmaking, experimenting with various techniques to capture and express the essence of memory.
Printmaking, with its varied impressions of the same drawing—some with more ink, others with less, some pressed firmly, others lightly—evokes a spectral quality of the original image. The prints, darker and less detailed than the master plate, become hazy echoes of their source. These foggy images mirror the imperfections of memory: details fade, focus shifts, and interpretations fill the gaps. Like memories, emotions linger even as clarity fades, reminding us that the past, like a blurry photo, is both cherished and elusive.
Denni's meticulous cross-hatching and laborious drawing style suggests an immersion in both the artwork and the recreated moment, allowing for reflection and the recognition of profound significance within the seemingly 'smaller' moments of daily existence.
During her time at Zaratan, in addition to her large-scale drawings, Denni has also explored printmaking, experimenting with various techniques to capture and express the essence of memory.
Printmaking, with its varied impressions of the same drawing—some with more ink, others with less, some pressed firmly, others lightly—evokes a spectral quality of the original image. The prints, darker and less detailed than the master plate, become hazy echoes of their source. These foggy images mirror the imperfections of memory: details fade, focus shifts, and interpretations fill the gaps. Like memories, emotions linger even as clarity fades, reminding us that the past, like a blurry photo, is both cherished and elusive.
BIO: DENNI WATERHOUSE is an artist from Grimsby, England. She is a graduate from Camberwell College of Arts after studying BA Fine Art: Drawing. Her work explores the expansion of ‘insignificant’ daily moments that we tend to overlook. Denni recreates former experiences using an intricate cross-hatching technique, leading to the close inspection and revaluation of the everyday. Through the recreation of ‘minor’ moments we all experience, Denni aims to convey how significant these moments are in relation to people who are no longer with us. Should these moments be over-looked or should we treasure these moments as much as we do the moments we deem significant. When people are no longer here, they miss the moments we tend to disregard. She believes the permanency of creating a work of an insignificant moment, and making herself examine it, is almost allowing her to relive and appreciate it.