We are pleased to announce our studio holder Denise Startin’s print The Index of Love, 69cm x 94cm (1/15) has been selected for the RBSA Prize Exhibition Thurs 15th Sept- Sat 15th Oct 2022. RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook Street, St. Paul’s Square, Birmingham, B3 1SA.

Denise Startin repurposes found images and objects into new performative relations, processes include re-staging, re-presentation and restoration. This work is linked thematically to a body of work called The Labour of Love Series, which is based on failed relationships, failed communication, and unrequited love.

Denise works across printmaking, photography and installation. Central themes to her practice include history, memory, narrative and myth, a continually recurring relation is the passage of ephemera between public and private realms. Denise reimagines and restores these decontextualised objects into new narratives and new performative relations, inventing new histories.