Denise Pepper

Denise Pepper is a Perth-based artist who has had a professional career since graduating at ECU Mt Lawley in 2006.  Pepper's art practice intertwines sophisticated Glass Art with large scale sculptures and elegant detailed art pieces.  She has developed a highly crafted set of skills to construct an imaginative fusion of ideas and materials.  Her art considers craftsmanship in the fabrication of lace and embroidery by translating this textiles-based research into unique art, delicate and complex and unapologetically decorative.  Fundamentally a glass artist, Pepper regularly exhibits in public sculpture exhibitions experimenting with diverse materials such as copper and acrylic plastics.

Denise Pepper was a Finalist in the 2025 Tom Malone Glass Art Prize and won the 2017 Cottesloe ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ WA Sculptor Scholarship. She previously was the winner of the Australian New Zealand Ranamok Art Glass Prize in 2012. Denise also won the 2009 Ausglass emerging artist prize, People’s Choice awards at Kirra Gallery Melbourne and Joondalup Community Invitation Art Award in 2015 and the City of Bayswater Sculpture Award in 2016.  She regularly exhibits in Australia and overseas, and is now a member of Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe's Decade Club, having has exhibited at the exhibition on ten occasions.