DENISE HAWRYSIO






Screening of Character Actresses A-K from Spotlight Project

at Lecture Theatre, Camberwell College of Art, Wednesday February 14th, 2018 – 3 to 4pm

My re-casting of the 1987 Spotlight directory evokes the spirit of surrealist collage, embracing Andre Breton’s definition of Surrealism as a disruptive “juxtaposition of two more or less disparate realities” or, in this case, two more or less disparate faces. The audio component is inspired by the sound poetry of Kurt Schitters’ Ursonate, 1922–32, where language is broken down into its abstract parts, read by Eleanor Vonn Brown.

Spotlight Screening at Camberwell College of Art













A plasterboard and timber frame was built and placed across the threshold of two spaces within the gallery. Instructions were given to paint the object the color of the most influential feature of the surrounding space; since the galley was in a park, it was painted green. Using a bushwhacking knife one surface of the wall was then disrupted using a motion like that used when cutting through dense brush in a forest. The reverse side of the frame featured a pink plasticine work by Alex Schady.

Hope and Sulk
Collaboration with artist Alex Schady

Stichting Outline, Amsterdam 2003





























Cross Lane Project - Vestry Street












Engraved text on book:

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer in which to shape it”

Bertold Brecht, 1931

Mirror and Hammer, mylar paper, 1999













Artists book Killing I  in new Publication;

Fur: A Sensitive History by Jonathan Faiers

A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur’s fashionable and controversial history the first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, art, politics, and, of course, fashion.

Published by Yale University Press, 2020

Jonathan Faiers is professor of fashion thinking at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Killing I in new Publication;













Exhibition of Artists books at Camberwell College of Art, and Chelsea collage of Art, University of the Arts, London, 2017/2020

Exhibition of Artists Books













My Artist book in Publication by Stephen Bury: Artists’ Books

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2015.

The history of artists’ involvement with the book format between 1963 and 2000 includes a fascinating range of artists and movements from Mallarméto the Piece of Paper Press via Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Fluxus and conceptual art. This second edition includes updated text with new bibliographic descriptions of 600 key artists’ books and over 130 new, full-page, colour illustrations taken from the internationally renowned Chelsea College of Art & Design Library collection.

Dr Stephen Bury is the Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, Frick Art Reference Library, New York.

Killing I, leopard and Buckram cover, 1988, Chelsea Special Collections, Chelsea College of Art & Design Library collection, UAL, London

Stephen Bury on Artists books













A Catalogue of Errors is a large body of photographic prints based on technical anomalies found amongst the negatives I inherited from my father in 1990. 

These negatives drew my attention because of the different puzzling photographic malfunctions and in this work/series as there was a flash/shutter problem with the camera. Indeed, some images only became apparent when printed, making my role one of forensic investigation. 

The anomalies within each photograph acknowledge the materiality of analogue film, particularly in this sequence whereby, although it may look like a collage of two images, the flash/shutter problem resulted in two different exposure in the one frame. 















With sound by Malvern Brume.
Premiered at the Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, New Mexico, USA, 2021

Gaps in the Persistent Hiss is a journey through a landscape both sonically and visually.  Through the combination of experimental music and a handheld binocular lens, the video plays with a radically discontinuous almost hallucinogenic image which reveals a primordial awareness of the world around us.  At times through this binocular lens, the image acts as a sort of mirror expanding the territory of the visible beyond what the individual can directly experience, by reflecting what is behind the lens, then suddenly acts as a sort of hole sucking up the entire visual world into itself.

Gaps in the Persistent Hiss, 9 mins, 2020













With sound by John Wynne and Bouche Bee.
Premiered at the Strangelove Film Festival, 2020, UK  

Linescio, like my early film work, consists of sequential experiments investigating links between movement, place and sound, moving in and out of abstraction. Building on the insights of experimental and structural film, this work puts the emphasis on materials, processes, and chance in order to explore concepts of disappearance and impermanence.

Made during an informal residency in Switzerland during the summer of 2020, with sound by artist John Wynne and pan-European avant-garde music group Bouche Bée – Petri Huurinainen, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, John Eyles.

Linescio, 8 mins, 2020













With sound by Bouche Bée.

Landscape Lens Study exploits the specificities of time and technology, in the spirit of Dziga Vertov’s 1920 film, Man with a Movie Camera, wherein a series of fragments builds into a portrait of landscape and the sensory, psychological, and social dimensions of a virtual world.

Landscape Lens Study, 4 mins, 2020







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