Denise is a Waterford based visual artist working in mixed media. In addition to an MFA in painting from NCAD and a BA in Visual Art, she has studied the figure and portraiture at The Royal College of Art in Florence and contemporary art at The Slade School of Fine Art in London. Combining old master techniques with a wide range of materials – oil paints, household paints, lace, driftwood, string, plaster of Paris – McAuliffe creates large scale pieces that shift between abstraction and figuration, offering a space within which her audience can engage.
