Tractor Girl

In her other lives in and around Sydney, Denise is an organiser of crafting workshops with many different groups of people, especially those who live at the fringes of society – the intellectually disabled and homeless – encouraging them to investigate their own capabilities at making. She also recently undertook a craft project with the Spinal Unit at the Prince of Wales (2012).

Denise is also the instigator of and participant in many urban art projects, such as ‘Guerillas Knit Vaucluse House’ (2010), in which she and a group of 15 others sat in the historic Sydney building and over three months gradually yarn-bombed their way through many of the house’s artefacts. Another project involved installing discarded computer keys embedded in resin onto various urban surfaces in Newtown (2010). ‘Escape’ buttons become magic buttons for urban use. Don’t you wish you had an “escape button”? I know I would sometimes love one, just for a sweet hour or two of quiet…

More of her art here.