Bea Denton’s practice explores ideas around death and loss, faith and ritual. Photography, printmaking, found materials and lost images are intrinsic to her creative process. Pushing the boundaries of the technical and physical limitations of photography, her work transcends its realist conventions to achieve a deeper resonance. Denton is a collector and archivist of anonymous lives, departed and reincarnated, in pursuit of an essence in the image: the 'soul'.
In her examination of faith and death, Denton attempts to find meaning and dimension through the imprint of time, light and phenomena. In a circuitous process, lost and found images are penetrated, interrogated and excavated through multiple layers of analogue and digital process. The resulting enigmatic, dislocated images challenge a traditional idea of photography as a faithful record of reality, and instead explore the nature of perception, belief and memory.

Denton graduated from UAL with Distinction in MA Fine Art Printmaking. She has taught at AUB, UAL and in Brazil and China, and is a Trustee for Lewisham Education Arts Network (LEAN).
Collaborations: Throes of Grief.
Awards: 2009 Creekside Open prize selected by Jenni Lomax
2007 Deptford X MacDonald Egan Award for Public Art
2002 Ardizzone Prize (Major) for Printmaking.