Helen Cammock works across moving image, photography, writing, poetry, performance, printmaking and installation. She is interested in histories, authorship, storytelling and the excavation of unheard, excluded and buried voices; often mapping her own writing, literature, poetry, philosophical and other found texts onto social and political situations.
Read MoreShe attempts to interrogate the ways stories are told, the hierarchy of histories and who is rendered invisible and therefore unacknowledged. Projects always rely heavily on research and a consideration of form is important in the work – the space between image and text, and between ideas, form and medium. Cammock was the joint winner of the Turner Prize 2019 and her exhibition The Long Note, was presented at Turner Contemporary, Margate as part of Turner Prize, 2019. She was winner of the 7th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Her subsequent exhibition_, Che Si Può Fare (What Can Be Done)_ premiered at Whitechapel Gallery, London from June – September 2019 and and then moved to Collezione Maramotti, Italy. Her film They Call It Idlewild, 2020 __commissioned by Wysing was shown at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and was part of the show I Decided I Want To Walk at Kate MacGarry, London.
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.
