Denise Hawrysio has worked in many media over the past twenty-five years, including film, video and installation. Throughout that period she has also pursued the conceptual possibilities of printmaking, especially in relation to her notion of site-specificity. Hawrysio produces her prints by employing external agents: human and physical (such as cars driving over etching plates. The prints are a collaboration between the artist and the world as she finds it; the actions and motions of Hawrysio's surroundings leave their mark on her art, with the result that each print is a still, a frozen interface between the materials of art and the physicality of the world.

Bill Jefferies, Director
Simon Fraser University Galley
Vancouver, Canada,
(excerpt from SFU catalogue)

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