SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 "One moonlit night: lunar 08.15" Imagine Gallery - Beijing             supported by the Australian Embassy Beijing           "WIND FLOWer" - Imagine Gallery - Outdoor Installation May 2007 2006  "Poetic Language" - Open Studio - Huanghua Studio - Suojia Cun PR China 2005  "Diyici Lai" - Huanghua Studio - Suojia Cun PRChina           "Bundanon: spirit of place" - Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery - Gasworks Art Park          "Rock, paper, water: bundanon traces" - Nillumbik Shire Offices - Greensborough 2004  "Colour and Place" - Western Academy - Beijing PRChina          "After Bundanon" - Open Studio - Stony Creek Studio Warrandyte          "Huángjin hé Hóng Fèngxiàn" (Golden and Red Offering) -           Purrumbete Homestead Camperdown 2002  "Constant State of Change" - RMIT Gossard Project Space - Melbourne           "Spring" - the edge - RMIT City Campus Melbourne 2001  "In the beginning" - George Paton Gallery - Melbourne University 2000  "Conceived Gothic" - PITspace RMIT Union Gallery - Bundoora

INVITATION AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Denise participates in many Invitation and Group exhibitions... 
Recent inclusions 30th Alice Craft Acquisition Alice Springs NT-:"an intimate look" UPstairs Bundanon NSW - Nu Yishu III ACT -China International Gallery Exposition - Beijing, 1st Huantie International Art Exhibition - Beijing - Victorian Artists Society Artist of the Year Award - "New Chinese Occidentalism" Haidian China - "Qingzhou International Art Exhibition" Shandong, China -2nd Annual Song Zhuang Art and Culture Festival - Song Zhuang Artists Village China -Western Academy of Beijing Inaugural Bamboo Gallery Exhibition - "In the Beginning" Inaugural Art Prize- MSWPS 97th Annual Exh (Highly Commended)- Loyola Art Prize (Winner).  Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize - Her Presence in Colours - Manningham Gallery, Nu Yishu: series one and two - Beijing, Exodus - SuojiaCun China, Demolish - BIAC China, Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Maribyrnong City Council Art project, Nillumbik Ephemeral Sculpture Event 2005, Nillumbik Art Prize, 32nd Alice Prize, Bei Gao I.D. - Manningham Art Gallery, Siemens Fine Arts Scholarship, RMIT New Collectables Auction, Linden Post Card Show, Seeing Red - Maroondah Art Gallery.
She participates in many community projects for the Uniting Church, Manningham and Nillumbik Shires, Warrandyte Festival.  Warrandyte Uniting Church Community  "Peace Wall" was dedicated on 3rd December 2006.

"gold and red offering" 
 81 bowls 500mm diameter each plaster paper paint rice food colouring - 2004

COMMISSIONS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2006  In residence Flinders Island - Bass Strait
        "Peace Wall" design and installation - Warrandyte Uniting Church Community Project, 
         collaboration with Walter Magilton, Mary-Lou Pittard and the community of Warrandyte
         In residence Huanghua Studio - Beijing - China
        "Lotus in the Light"- Western Academy of Beijing. Outdoor Installation Project assisted by High School Senior Art Students 
2005 In residence Huanghua Studio - Beijing - China
2004  Australia-China Council Residence Award - Beijing Sept./Oct.
        Cultural Development Grant - Nillumbik Shire Council for Residency in China
        BUNDANON ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - Bundanon  June
        NAVA Artists" Grant for "BEIGAO.I.D.succession:afterthought:persistence"
2003  Red Gate Residency - Bei Gao Studio - Beijing
2002  RMIT Cultural and Community Grant for project:
        "THE JOURNEY under construction"
2001 ACUMA Award for: Best Innovation, New Idea or use of Technology - "Brailing"
        Federation Residency - SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School - Doncaster
        In Beijing Denise is represented by Imagine Gallery- www.imagine-gallery.com

                           "teatime"  900 x 700 x 500mm glass chrome 2006
 

Artist Statement - Denise Keele-bedford
In creating my artworks a major influence is history, being a combination of long and short-term collective events, rituals or personal memories.
Production includes working in multiples to form a series or a single artwork.
Major interests are in the diversity of people, cultures and environments, particularly regarding spirituality within personal and cultural belief systems. 
I completed a Master of Fine Art in 2002 at RMIT Melbourne Campus and in the same year travelled to China.   Since then I continue to work between my studios in Melbourne and Beijing where projects, research and influences from both cultures are integrated and reflected in my artwork production.
Mediums are varied to suit the particular installation with consideration for the site or environment.  Indoor and outdoor installations, site-specific works and individual artworks include materials such as textiles, paper, organic elements, found objects, porcelain, glass or bronze.

"dreams and visions two" verso as above

      "dreams and visions"  2000 x 1500 x 50mm timber paint gold leaf 2006
 

"dreams and visions" verso as above
          

"classic" 400 x 200mm aged timber boxes brass resin velvet 2005-2007

"intimate feast" 900 x 900mm aged timber porcelain glass  2007

"immortality" 350mm diameter timber bronze porcelain velvet   2007

"revolt"  dimensions variable table size 1400 x 870 x 400mm 
  timber ceramic resin paint paper  2005-2007

"offering" dimensions variable aged timber stone flour - 2007