DENISE QUAH
Denise Quah is a landscape abstractionist working in sediment: plaster, acrylic and raw pigment, layered by hand.
Born in Malaysia, Quah is based between Penang and Melbourne. She treats terrain not as a fixed subject but rather as a recurring encounter, drawing on coastlines, tidal flats, alpine fields and desert crossed in the course of a life lived between places.
Her work returns, always, to threshold: the edge where land meets water, where stillness gives way to change, where one life becomes another. Self-taught, Quah builds each surface in layers, working with her materials rather than against them, so the process itself carries the record of arrival and settling. Her current body of work moves from distance to proximity, drawing on an aerial vantage, looking down on the land toward one standing within it.
Quah’s work has been exhibited across Australia and is held in private collections in Australia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States, with institutional placements in Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.
