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Helen Cammock

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b. 1970, United Kingdom

Helen Cammock was born in Staffordshire, UK in 1970 and lives and works in London. In 2020, Cammock will have a solo exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK to commemorate their 30th anniversary, following a residency this month. Her new film Concrete Feather and Porcelain Tacks, has been commissioned with Film and Video Umbrella, London, Touchstones Museum,Rochdale, UK and The Photographers Gallery, London and will be exhibited in solo exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery and Rochdale Museum in June and October 2020 respectively. Next summer, Serpentine Gallery, London will present Cammock’s project Radio Ballads, a radio programme and series of live performance events.

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Her exhibition The Long Note, has been presented at Turner Contemporary, Margate as part of the 2019 Turner Prize; VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland; and The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (all 2019). Other solo exhibitions include The Sound of Words, Reading Museum, UK (2019) and Shouting In Whispers, Cubitt, London (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at A Plus A Gallery, Venice; Somerset House, London; Hollybush Gardens, London; FirstSite, Colchester, UK; and she has staged performances at The Showroom, Whitechapel Gallery and the ICA in London.

Text courtesy Kate MacGarry.

Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Helen Cammock, I Decided I Want to Walk at Kate MacGarry, London, United Kingdom Closed 10 September–17 October 2020 Helen Cammock I Decided I Want to Walk

Recent Artworks

Song from They Call It Idlewild by Helen Cammock contemporary artwork works on paper, print
Helen Cammock Song from They Call It Idlewild, 2020 Screen print on paper
102 x 72 cm
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Thought (Diptych) from They Call It Idlewild by Helen Cammock contemporary artwork print
Helen Cammock Thought (Diptych) from They Call It Idlewild, 2020 Screen print on paper
102 x 72 cm
Kate MacGarry Contact Gallery
Sit alongside and feel me breathe by Helen Cammock contemporary artwork textile
Helen Cammock Sit alongside and feel me breathe, 2021 Woven tapestry, 3D glasses
102 x 72 cm
Kate MacGarry Contact Gallery
Shouting in Whispers (Punctum) by Helen Cammock contemporary artwork works on paper, print
Helen Cammock Shouting in Whispers (Punctum), 2017 Screen print on paper
102 x 72 cm
Kate MacGarry Contact Gallery

Helen Cammock In Ocula Magazine

'Radio Ballads' Artists Embed With Social Services for Serpentine Show Ocula News 'Radio Ballads' Artists Embed With Social Services for Serpentine Show London, 24 March 2022

Videos by Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim, and Ilona Sagar touch on issues ranging from workplace carcinogens to domestic abuse in a new exhibition that asks how art can effect change.

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Performance Exchange to Showcase Live Art in London This Summer Ocula News Performance Exchange to Showcase Live Art in London This Summer London, 22 June 2021

The programme was put together with some of the city's leading galleries, including Goodman, König, Sadie Coles HQ, and Amanda Wilkinson.

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How to Support Artists and Galleries Impacted by the Beirut Explosion Ocula News How to Support Artists and Galleries Impacted by the Beirut Explosion Beirut, 13 August 2020

An Instagram account selling works donated by artists including Ali Cherri and Charwei Tsai is among the initiatives raising funds.

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Who is Max Mara Prize Winner Emma Talbot? Ocula News Who is Max Mara Prize Winner Emma Talbot? London, 11 March 2020

Talbot will undertake a residency in Italy as the recipient of Britain’s only major prize for female visual artists.

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Helen Cammock In Related Press

When Was the Last Time You Did Nothing? Related Press When Was the Last Time You Did Nothing? 8 October 2020, Frieze

In 1967, Bruce Nauman made his ten-minute, 16mm film Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square. Using a Sony Portapak camera borrowed from the gallerist Leo Castelli, Nauman

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Helen Cammock’s “I Decided I Want to Walk” Related Press Helen Cammock’s “I Decided I Want to Walk” 24 September 2020, art-agenda

Helen Cammock’s 19-minute video They Call It Idlewild (all works 2020) presents, in no particular order, the static framing of: a brick wall, a statue, a frayed cobweb, grasses dipping in the breeze

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