Helen Carnac
Overview
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Ammil IX, 2023
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Ammil XI, 2023
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Small Vessel 2, 2023
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Counting Vessel, 2022
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Counting Vessel II, 2022
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Up, Across, Along Vessel, 2022
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White Ground II, 2022
Helen Carnac's work explores the explicit connections between material, process, and maker. Throughout her practice, she has worked with various materials but has developed a particular expertise in combining vitreous enamel with metal. Helen is fascinated by how one material becomes known through another. Understanding the attributes of a material; density, malleability, patina, corrosion, tensile strength, and oxidisation allows her to test the attributes of another. In doing so, Helen develops new ways in which materials co-exist and support each other. She investigates how those materials change together over time and in different environments.
Having previously been based in London, Helen now lives and works in Somerset, UK. Setting up her studio in the early 1990s, Helen develops projects using methodologies that are rooted in an acute awareness of physical location, place and working practices. Helen has worked extensively in the UK, Europe and USA. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of Artquest's advisory panel.
The artist's work is held in several collections including the V&A (UK), Enamel Art Foundation, (USA), Rotasa Foundation, (USA), RAM (USA) and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada).
Works
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Counting Vessel, 2022£ 2,155.00View more details -
Counting Vessel II, 2022£ 2,155.00View more details
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Up, Across, Along Vessel, 2022£ 2,155.00View more details
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White Ground II, 2022£ 2,420.00View more details
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Ammil IX, 2023£ 1,980.00View more details
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Ammil XI, 2023£ 2,860.00View more details
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Small Vessel 2, 2023£ 1,760.00View more details
Series
Exhibitions
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20 Years of Cavaliero Finn
Revisit Cavaliero Finn's landmark 20th anniversary exhibition at Stockwell Studio 8 May - 1 Aug 2024In 2004, Juliana Cavaliero and Debra Finn curated their first exhibition as Cavaliero Finn in a home in South London and they haven't looked back since.Read more
For this exhibition, Cavaliero Finn returned to its South London roots to celebrate its 20th birthday at Stockwell Studio. The exhibition featured a wide range of artists who have shown with the gallery over the last 20 years including work by our current portfolio of artists and work from some of our earlier artists, like painters Holly Frean, Daisy Cook and Caroline Popham, paper artist Thurle Wright, designer makers Sam Edkins and Deborah Bowness, and sculptors Tom Stogdon, Danuta Solowiej, Merete Rasmussen and Patricia Volk who returned to the gallery as guest artists for this show. The exhibition also included an installation by textile artist Isabelle Fletcher and new work by Lise Herud Braten, the most recent additions to the Cavaliero Finn portfolio.
Revisit this exhibition online now.
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Winter - The weakening eye of day
Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2JE - 22nd-26th November, 11am - 7pm Wed-Sat 11am-4pm Sun 22 - 26 Nov 2023In November 2023, Cavaliero Finn presented a selection of artworks at Cromwell Place chosen to evoke winter in different ways, whether it’s capturing the essence of it through light and colour, the sense of decay through texture and material, or the sense of beauty hope and renewal through composition and context. The Winter exhibition was dedicated to artist Judith Tucker who died suddenly on Monday November 13th 2023.Read more
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20 Years of Cavaliero Finn
Revisit Cavaliero Finn's landmark 20th anniversary exhibition at Stockwell Studio 8 May - 1 Aug 2024In 2004, Juliana Cavaliero and Debra Finn curated their first exhibition as Cavaliero Finn in a home in South London and they haven't looked back since. For this exhibition, Cavaliero Finn returned to its South London roots to celebrate its 20th birthday at Stockwell Studio. The exhibition featured a wide range of artists who have shown with the gallery over the last 20 years including work by our current portfolio of artists and work from some of our earlier artists, like painters Holly Frean, Daisy Cook and Caroline Popham, paper artist Thurle Wright, designer makers Sam Edkins and Deborah Bowness, and sculptors Tom Stogdon, Danuta Solowiej, Merete Rasmussen and Patricia Volk who returned to the gallery as guest artists for this show. The exhibition also included an installation by textile artist Isabelle Fletcher and new work by Lise Herud Braten, the most recent additions to the Cavaliero Finn portfolio. Revisit this exhibition online now.Read more -
Winter - The weakening eye of day
Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2JE - 22nd-26th November, 11am - 7pm Wed-Sat 11am-4pm Sun 22 - 26 Nov 2023In November 2023, Cavaliero Finn presented a selection of artworks at Cromwell Place chosen to evoke winter in different ways, whether it’s capturing the essence of it through light and colour, the sense of decay through texture and material, or the sense of beauty hope and renewal through composition and context. The Winter exhibition was dedicated to artist Judith Tucker who died suddenly on Monday November 13th 2023.Read more