Description: Denise Webber FRSA is a British artist whose work spans video, photography, drawing and works on paper. She focuses on the female body and its complicated relationship to beauty, creative authorship and power.
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Denise Webber (b1958 Leicestershire UK) is a British artist whose work spans lens-based media (video, photography), drawing and works on paper. Her work has featured internationally in exhibitions at Tate Modern London, Moderna Museet Stockholm and the Museum of Contemporary Art Melbourne and is represented in the Arts Council England Collection and the Tate Archive.
She spent her early years in Ammochostos (Famagusta) in Cyprus, until the outbreak of war, when she and her family were evacuated under shell bombardment on the last British convoy to leave the city in July 1974.
Her work focuses particularly upon women's experiences of liberation, transition or transformation. In her video animation Clay (1998) she repositions the 19th century still photographs of Eadweard Muybridge. Drawing attention to small revelatory details, particularly of Muybridge's images of women, she frees and restores human dignity to his subjects in a mood of celebration.