ABOUT DENISE
Denise is a textile artist, creating 2D & 3D felt objects and machine embroidery wall works.
Denise exhibits her work widely in Australia and Internationally and her works have been selected for the biannual, World of Threads exhibition in Canada, Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Mini Textile Art, Ukraine and recently a finalist in Australian Fibre Art Awards wining Excellence in Felting award, 2022.
She is published widely including her book “Living in a Felt World”, “Worldwide Colours of Felt”, Netherlands and her work is included in the Dimensional Cloth, Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists by Andra Stanton USA.
Her works are in private and public collections, and she teaches felting in places such as Portugal, London and the AGNSW. Denise teaches felting in places such as Portugal, London and the AGNSW.
ABOUT PETER
Born in Adelaide in 1948, Peter Griffen has been painting for over fifty years. He lives and works in his warehouse studio in the inner west of Sydney and travels throughout Australia and overseas exhibiting and teaching.
He has had over 70 solo exhibitions, most in Australia, and exhibitions in London, Paris, St Tropez, Lyon, New York and New Zealand. His participation in group exhibitions is also widespread; art fairs in Canada, UK, Belgium, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney. Peter has been a finalist in the Blake, Sulman, Dobell, Fleurieu, Eutick, Alice, Faber-Castell, Fishers Ghost, Biennale Internationale du Pastel (France) and has been invited to exhibit in the Tattersalls Landscape Exhibition, Brisbane, and Messagers de la Terre (France). He won the Muswellbrook acquisitive prize for works on paper.
The Macquarie University and Qantas have large collections of his work and Griffen’s work is in numerous other public and private collections worldwide. Since 2013 he has been the President of the Glebe Art Show and in 2022 became a member of the Royal Art Society of NSW.
ABOUT WENDY
Wendy works with textiles and mixed media to create sculptural forms. Her aim is to create textured surfaces which are often inspired by the colour, lines and shapes found in rocks. Wendy uses a palette of earth tones and intriguing sculptural forms to ensure an aesthetically artistic result.
Wendy uses a variety of techniques and materials to create texture. Monoprinting, gelli printing, mark making, heat treating layers of material, dyeing with eucalyptus leaves and bark, paper making, fabric mâché, spinning and stitch are all techniques Wendy uses regularly. Her materials include fine fabrics as well as repurposed materials.
Wendy’s talent is in choosing appropriate materials and techniques to reflect the concept of the art under construction. The process involved in creating new surfaces is an important aspect for her and is therefore photographed and noted in preparation for future variations. It is during this slow and often repetitive cycle that the magic occurs and the direction for her forms emerge