Bea Denton
Bea Denton’s practice explores ideas around death, loss, grief, ritual, memorial and remembrance. Photography, printmaking, found materials and lost images are intrinsic to her creative process. Pushing the technical and physical boundaries of process, the enigmatic, often dislocated images she creates explore the nature of perception, truth, belief and memory to seek a deeper resonance.
"We live in a society whose newfound religion is self-worship and whose headline news is a celebration of public suffering and testimony. But despite this spiritual poverty it seems that we have a need for hope that is as great as our need to tell stories. Denton's work is about storytelling, although truth is not the issue - these are stories simply told which express recognition of something intangible in the way of things". Patrick Semple, Afterthought Press