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. She has developed work with migrant and minority communities in New Zealand and Japan, and maintains an ongoing interest in the domestic sphere as a site of memory, intimacy, and projection. More broadly, her work 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. Her photographic work has been presented in public space at Parc de la Coulée-Verte (Saint-Lambert, Canada) as part of a year-long exhibition (2024–2025). She is a two-time artist-in-residence at Can Serrat (Spain), the oldest international research and production center in Catalonia, and was invited to the Marina Abramović Institute’s Cleaning the House workshop in Greece, where she received a scholarship. Her work has also been supported by a literary grant from AFÉA (UQAM, Montreal). Additional residencies and participations include ArtHouse Pani (Mexico), the Hamilton Arts Festival Toi Ora ki Kirikiriroa (New Zealand), the ARCUS Ibaraki Research Center (Japan, 2025), and the Rocaberti Writers Retreat (Spain, 2025). In 2022, she initiated the photojournalistic series Small Gestures: Exploring the Memories of a Lived Life, developed in collaboration with residents of the Raglan Rest Home and Hospital. The project received support from Community Fund Raglan Co. and Waikato Creative Communities. Denis has contributed writing to The Raglan Chronicle, Local RAG Magazine, Deeper Japan, Ex Situ Magazine, and The Owl Anthology , addressing themes including gender dynamics in Kabuki theatre, nostalgia, aging, and intimate forms of photojournalistic storytelling. She has exhibited in New Zealand and Canada, including at the Wharf Gallery, Studio One Toi Tū, Little Hill Studios (Raglan Arts Weekend), OSAC Gallery, Never Space Gallery, Parc de la Coulée-Verte (Montreal), 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 Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and including the cities of Candiac, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Brossard, and Sainte-Catherine. She has been described by Tesh, co-founder of Raglan Co., as a catalyst for community engagement. Her work has been featured in The New Zealand Herald, Waikato Times, Radio New Zealand (RNZ Culture 101), Women in Film and Television New Zealand, Creative Waikato, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Raglan Community Radio, and Issuu New Zealand.