A brief note 

DENISE GREEN was born in Melbourne in 1942 and lived in Brisbane until she left Australia for Europe in 1963 at the age of seventeen. Green's talent led her to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris while attending a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) at the Sorbonne from 1965-69. 

In 1970 Green left for New York where she did a Masters in Fine Arts at Hunter College. Her teachers included the veteran abstract expressionist painters Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell and the sculptor Tony Smith. 

Two working residencies in India gave Green the opportunity to investigate papermaking techniques which accounts for some of the brilliant colours and textures of paper pulp she has subsequently used, and shown here.

Over her years in New York, figuration has been gradually eased out of her work. Her style has slowly moved away from the simplified portrayal of her surrounding architecture, to one which explored space by painting squares, circles, musical notations and fields of colour.

In 2007 Denise was awarded the Order of Australia. She still lives in New York.