Helen Carnac
Overview
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
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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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Overlap III , 2023 SoldView 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
Stockwell Studio, 1 Lorn Court, London, SW9 0AB 11 - 18 May 2024Cavaliero Finn returns to its South London roots to celebrate its 20th birthday at Stockwell Studio with an exhibition featuring over 60 artists. The exhibition will feature work from a wide range of artists who have shown with the gallery over the last 20 years and include an installation by textile artist Isabelle Fletcher and new work by Lise Herud Braten, the most recent additions to the Cavaliero Finn portfolio. Starting on the 11th of May and finishing on May 18th, 20 years of Cavaliero Finn is part of both the Dulwich Festival 2024, (which was the original launch platform for Cavaliero Finn back in 2004) and London Craft Week 2024.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
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