Denise Poote is a fine-art practitioner who completed masters level research in Drawing at University of the Arts London September 2019.  She is particularly interested in the relationship around the processes across whole systems, especially found through embodied drawing and how it might form a kind of collective experiential knowledge.

 

Alongside this practice, she has also worked in educational contexts and as participatory arts specialist, working with people of all ages in both arts and design across processes and materials. 

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Most recently she showed work made during a studio residency, won as part of the Graduate Launch Pad programme at Spudworks in the New Forest, Hampshire.  During this residency, she investigated the variety of authority boundary lines that describe Sway village.  Walking the lines and gathering the sounds and images found enroute, she compared these recorded paths with institutional maps and authorised versions, interested in the systems and ecology of the village and the forest spaces.

 

One of the village boundaries is used for planning purposes and is defined by the typical hunting range of the domestic cat so, using social media, Poote asked Sway villagers to message her photographs of their pet cats.  These community cats, and inspired that an invisible boundary might contain the movements of a cat, led to a series of designs and drawings that play with an observation of shifts in movement and line  she found.