Richard Denny is a British/Australian Citizen (b.Sunderland UK 1967). Currently residing and working in/from Tallinn, Estonia.

The Artist/Researcher is a part-time practice-based PhD candidate at Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) in Visual & Material Cultures. The emerging research project is titled Revisiting A Vanishing Land.

Previously educated at RMIT Australia & RIT USA in Photography (B.A 1995) with Distinction & Falmouth University UK in Fine Arts (M.A 2023) with Distinction.

Building on successful earlier careers within photography and painting that had parallel international existences over the previous 30 years, the recent essay film practice has moved the artist into new territory.

The current practice is informed by hauntology, collage, memory and psychogeography. Using photography, film, text, sound, narrative voice and found footage, these assemblages explore landscapes – real and imagined – in a society seemingly in late-capitalist decline. 

Collectively, the essay-films are authored by the anonymous Kotzebue Kollective and produced by Katka Films, each operating from their own blurred manifestos.

Photo by: The Kotzebue Kollective

Recent exhibitions & screenings

  • ‘Give a New Life‘ (Group show) MONA The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia. December 2023 - February 2024

  • ‘Ghosts of the Arctic’ Four Corners Gallery, London. May 2023

  • ’Revisiting a vanishing land’ & ‘Ghosts of the Arctic’. Art Station Film Saxmundham Suffolk UK, curated by Emily Richardson. April 2023

  • ‘The Oru project’. Falmouth School of Art, UK (Group exhibition). June 2022

  • ‘The Oru Project’. Spitsbergen Artists Center, Svalbard, Norway. August 2022

Earlier exhibitions are listed on the previous work page.

Recent residencies

  • Rüki Gallery, Viljandi, Estonia. June 2023

  • Spitsbergen Artists Center. Svalbard, The High Arctic, Norway. July/August 2022

  • Leipzig Spinnerei, Germany. April 2022