DENISE HONAN

Artists bio

Born in rural Victoria and living and working in Melbourne, Denise Honan has ongoing creative practice grounded in engaging with discarded materiality presented as transformed paradigms. Working across multiple mediums using discarded materials and drawn to colour, her work emphasises the importance of play and experimentation.

• Lives and works in Melbourne

Education

• 2020 Honours Visual Art, First Class Honours , RMIT
• 2019 Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University
• 2015 Diploma Visual Art, Victoria University      

Group Exhibitions

2026

•  RAGE Recycled Arts Festival, Euroa, Vic
•  Herring Island summers Arts Festival , South Yarra
• Newcastle Lighthouse “In the Wild “, NSW
•  Bound by Thread , Melbourne
• Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
•  ASV Prize Artists Society , Melbourne
• Linden Art Prize 2026 , Melbourne

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2025

• Omnia Art Prize, Toorak
• Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Melbourne
• Herring Island Summer Arts Festival , South Yarra .
• Threads , tangles , detangles, Caulfield, Naarm textile
• ASV Annual Awards 2025, Melbourne
• Social Fabric , Naarm Textiles, Melbourne ,
• Linden annual prize , Melbourne
• 106 Studio & Gallery , Melbourne

2024  

• Summer Small Works Show & Prize, Caelene Nee Glen Gallery, Brighton
• Ridiculous , Five Walls Gallery ,Footscray
• Small , 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
• Pop - Up shop , Fitzroy St, St Kilda
• Christmas Market, Fitzroy St, St Kilda
• Linden Postcard Show 2023 -2024, St Kilda
• Christmas Market @The Well at StKilda Chapel, St Kilda

2023

• Chant , Rubicon Ari , West Melbourne
• Invited, Group Show of studio residents @106 Studio Gallery, StKilda
• Linden Postcard Show 2023 -2024, St Kilda

 2022

•   Frequency,  106 Studios and Gallery, St Kilda

• Linden Postcard Show 22-23, Linden New Art, StKilda  

 2021

• Expulsion Drawings, Flora, Heritage Hill, Dandenong
• 2021 Artz Blitz, City of Kingston, Moorabbin

2020

• Honours Graduate Show, RMIT, Melbourne , Online exhibition

2019

• Mechanical Drawing, Connections Art Space, Dandenong
• Fabrication, 222 Rosslyn Gallery, West Melbourne
• White Exhibition & Prize , Fiona Myer Gallery, Cremorne

2018

• Linden Postcard Show, Linden Art Gallery, St Kilda
• Small Exhibition, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne
• The Fluoro nightmare and the Shy One , MADA , Caulfield
• Graduate Exhibition,  Fine Art, Monash University, MADA, Caufield

2017

        >   From Nature’ exhibition,  Gasworks Art Park, Albert Park

• Wrapped, “Build/Rebuild exhibition, Artists Guild, Docklands

• Unfinished Search for the Miraculous, Five Walls, Footscray
• Connect 16 , VU Artspace, Footscray
• Home, Photography Exhibition ,  Connections Art Space, Dandenong

2015

                    >     Graduate Exhibition, Victoria University , Melbourne

• Define Detroit, Foyer Art Gallery, Victoria University,  Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

2023

• Exuberance , 106 Gallery , StKilda

2022

• Artifacts, Glen Eira City Gallery, Caulfield

2020

• Actuality, Rubicon ARI,  West Melbourne

2019

• Conceptual Steel Sculpture, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
• Subterranean, Dirty Dozen, Melbourne,  thirteen window exhibitions
• Out Loud, Cove Park, Scotland, small sculptures and drawings

Prizes

• Fiona Myer Encouragement Award, Victoria University, 2015.
• Bright Star Award, Victoria University 2014
• Honours Prize , two mentor sessions,  RMIT, 2020
• Creative Conversations , mentor session , 2021

Residencies

• Studio XL>XS, Docklands, summer residency, December 2018 - February 2019.
• Cove Park, Peaton Hill, Argyll and Bute, G84 OPE, Scotland, July 2019.
• Detroit, travelling scholarship , 2015
• 2026 Newcastle lighthouse

Sales

Sales of paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures held in private collections

Community and voluntary activities

             2008- 2025 , volunteer at St Stephens Opportunity Shop, Gardenvale

             2017-2025

             Volunteering in remote Northern Territory Schools 2018 to present