Helen Cammock
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On WindTides, 2024
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Tides, 2022
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I Will Keep My Soul, 2022
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I Will Keep My Soul, 2023
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They Call It Idlewild, 2023
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'behind the eye is the promise of rain' at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, 2022
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Radio Ballads, 2022
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TFL Art on the Underground, 2021
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British Art Show 9, 2021
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Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, 2021
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Concrete Feathers, Porcelain Tacks I (Coal Not Dole), 2021
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I Decided I Want to Walk, 2020
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They Call It Idlewild, 2020
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They Call it Idlewild, 2020
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Thought (Diptych) from They Call It Idlewild, 2020
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Che si può fare, 2019
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Che si può fare, 2019
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Che si può fare, 2019
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Chorus I Che sui può fare, 2019
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Turner Prize, 2019
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Moveable Bridge Triptych, 2017
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Slide Re-enactment Triptych, 2017
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Moveable Bridge III, 2017
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Moveable Bridge, 2017
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There's a Hole in the Sky Part II: Listening to James Baldwin, 2016
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There's a Hole in the Sky Part I, 2016
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Family Portrait, 2015
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Changing Room, 2014
Helen Cammock was born in 1970 in Staffordshire. Film, photography, print, text, song and performance examine mainstream historical and contemporary narratives about Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability, throughout her practice. Her works often cut across time and geography, layering multiple voices as she investigates the cyclical nature of histories in her visual and aural assemblages.
She has exhibited and performed worldwide with recent solo shows including Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles and Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, New Orleans (2023); Bass Notes and SiteLines, Amant, Brooklyn, USA (2023); They Call it Idlewild, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada (2023); behind the eye is the promise of rain, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hannover, Germany (2022); Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (2021); Beneath the Surface of Skin, STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021); Che Si Può Fare (What Can be Done), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019); The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019) and VOID Derry, Northern Ireland (2018).
Recent group shows include Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024); WINK WINK, Whitaker Art Gallery and Museum, Rossendale, UK (2023); Breathing, Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany (2022); Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries, London (2022) and Sixty Years: The Unfinished Conversation, Tate Britain, London (2021). In 2023, Cammock received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists. In 2019, she was the joint recipient of The Turner Prize and in 2017, Cammock won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Cammock’s public art commission On WindTides (2024) launched on The Line, London in May 2024.
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Helen Cammock, Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
19 October 2024 - 9 March 2025Curated by Sumuyya Khader, Conversations brings together work by nearly 40 leading Black women and non-binary artists. The exhibition asks poignant questions about the present,...Read more -
Helen Cammock: On WindTides, The Line, London
Launched 23 May 2024Spanning the River Lea, Helen Cammock's new commission, On WindTides (2024) is a large-scale text installation that explores movement, migration and change. It consists of...Read more
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Art Basel
Rana Begum, Helen Cammock, Goshka Macuga & Francis Upritchard 16 - 19 June 2022 -
Frieze London
Helen Cammock, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga & Renee So 13 - 17 October 2021We are at Frieze this week stand A13 showing Helen Cammock, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga and Renee SoRead more