Deanne Eccles' practice begins with a question: what happens when we perceive before we interpret?

For more than three decades, her exploration of this question has moved between painting, colour, experimental theatre, Butoh and Body Weather. Rather than remaining separate disciplines, these experiences have gradually converged into an embodied way of seeing and making.

From this enquiry Deanne developed Body Sense Perception and Response, a methodology that brings conscious attention to sensory experience, bodily response and the relationship between artist, artwork and environment.

In the studio, this means allowing a painting to be discovered rather than entirely predetermined. Colour, movement and gesture establish relationships; the body responds; the painting changes — and something previously unknown is allowed to emerge.