Now showing: Collective exhibition at McClure Gallery until May 9

Elisabeth Denis (b. 1995, Montreal, Canada) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her practice engages with relational aesthetics through text, moving image, installation, long-duration performance, and site-specific photography, alongside a material exploration of sculpture and printmaking, including metalwork, ceramics, lithography, and etching.

Working from lived experience, she develops projects that originate in personal lines of inquiry and extend into broader social, spatial, and cross-cultural contexts. Among her recurring interests is the domestic sphere, approached as a site of memory, intimacy, and projection. More broadly, she examines how environments shape emotional, intellectual, and relational exchanges.

Adopting an investigative methodology, she engages in dialogue with individuals, gathering testimonies and lived experiences that are translated across media and contexts. These encounters form the core material of her practice, where private concerns are extended into collective structures.

Denis has contributed writing to The Raglan Chronicle, Local Rag Magazine, Deeper Japan, Ex Situ, and The Owl Anthology. Her work has been exhibited in New Zealand and Canada, including at the Wharf Gallery, Studio One Toi Tū, Little Hill Studios, Raglan Arts Weekend, OSAC, Never Space, Parc de la Coulée-Verte, and McClure Gallery. Her interactive art game Scallop Eyes is available through museum shops and cultural institutions including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the MNBAQ, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), as well as the cities of Candiac, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Brossard, and Sainte-Catherine.

Her work has been featured in The New Zealand Herald, Waikato Times, Radio New Zealand, Women in Film and Television, Creative Waikato, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, and Raglan Radio.