Helen G Blake Here we sit, 2025 Ink and coloured pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)
About Helen Blake is an artist whose practice focuses on colour; engaging with rhythm and formalism, chance and deliberation. Using a working method where process and contemplation guide the evolution of the work, she constructs overtly hand-made drawings and paintings which record and examine colour conversations within accumulating pattern structures, embracing accidents, flaws and discrepancies within their rhythms.
Education 1980-1983 B.A. (Hons) in Visual Art, Aberystwyth University, Wales.
Solo Exhibitions 2023 A room full of altarpieces, but not a church, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Recent Works, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2019 Choir, Limerick Museum, Limerick, Ireland. Recent Works, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2018 New Paintings, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2017 Recent Works, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2016 Helen G Blake, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
Group Exhibitions 2025 London Art Fair, showing with Molesworth Gallery.
2024 Winter Group Show, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin. Butterfly Memory, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast. A0 Inside + Out, Drawing Box International, Leitrim Sculpture Centre Gallery, Manorhamilton Co. Leitrim. Kites above the Castles, curated by Patrick T Murphy, Director. RHA; Mary Lavin Place, Wilton Park, Dublin. The First Page of Summer, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast Summer Group Exhibition, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin RHA Royal Hibernian Academy 194th Annual Exhibition, Dublin H_A_R_D_P_A_P_E_R, Phoenix Artspace, Brighton, UK
2023 Small Paintings, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York Winter Group Show, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art First Biennial Exhibition, Ballycastle, Co Mayo Call & Response, a project by The Drawing Box, curated by Anoushka Havinden and Pearl Kinnear, Glasgow Project Room Changing Group Exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast RHA Royal Hibernian Academy 193rd Annual Exhibition, Dublin Twenty one, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow
2022 In and of itself - abstraction in the age of images, RHA Gallery, Dublin. Winter Group Show, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin Changing Group Exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022, judged by Hettie Judah, Geraldine Swayne, Grant Scanlan, Thames-Side Studios Gallery Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022, judged by Hettie Judah, Geraldine Swayne, Grant Scanlan, Huddersfield Art Gallery Walking in Two Worlds part 3, curated by Jonathan Powell; Volcano Theatre, Swansea RHA Royal Hibernian Academy 192nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin Generation2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Curated by Anna O'Sullivan
2021 Return to Disintegration-Periodical Review 11, selected by Sheena Barrett, Alice Butler, Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy, Pallas Projects, Dublin Winter Group Show, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin Changing Group Exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast RHA Royal Hibernian Academy 191st Annual Exhibition, Dublin Walking in Two Worlds part 2, curated by Jonathan Powell; Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford, Manchester Walking in Two Worlds part 1, curated by Jonathan Powell; Oriel Carn Gallery, Caernarfon, Wales. Art Beijing 2021; showing with the Embassy of Ireland, curated by Niamh Cunningham and Peking Art Associates
Awards 2023 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2022 Highly Commended Award and Runner-up Prize, Contemporary British Painting Prize
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
Gallery Representation The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Public Collections Aberystwyth University, Aberyswyth, Wales, UK Arts Council of Ireland Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland OPW Irish State Art Collection, Ireland
Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'Here we sit' is a methodical free-hand ink drawing of close-set chevrons, building up and enclosing at the lower edge two areas of warm glowing colour.
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