Lot 427 - Helen G Blake - Here we sit

Ink and coloured pencil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Helen Blake is an artist whose practice focuses on colour; engaging with rhythm and formalism, chance and deliberation. Using a working method where process and contemplation guide the evolution of the work, she constructs overtly hand-made drawings and paintings which record and examine colour conversations within accumulating pattern structures, embracing accidents, flaws and discrepancies within their rhythms.

Education
1980-1983
B.A. (Hons) in Visual Art, Aberystwyth University, Wales.

Solo Exhibitions
2023
A room full of altarpieces, but not a church, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Recent Works, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

2019
Choir, Limerick Museum, Limerick, Ireland.
Recent Works, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

2018
New Paintings, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2017
Recent Works, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

2016
Helen G Blake, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland.

Group Exhibitions
2025
London Art Fair, showing with Molesworth Gallery.

2024
Winter Group Show, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.
Butterfly Memory, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast.
A0 Inside + Out, Drawing Box International, Leitrim Sculpture Centre Gallery, Manorhamilton Co. Leitrim.
Kites above the Castles, curated by Patrick T Murphy, Director. RHA; Mary Lavin Place, Wilton Park, Dublin.
The First Page of Summer, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Summer Group Exhibition, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
RHA Royal Hibernian Academy 194th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
H_A_R_D_P_A_P_E_R, Phoenix Artspace, Brighton, UK

2023
Small Paintings, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York
Winter Group Show, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art First Biennial Exhibition, Ballycastle, Co Mayo
Call & Response, a project by The Drawing Box, curated by Anoushka Havinden and Pearl Kinnear, Glasgow Project Room
Changing Group Exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
RHA Royal Hibernian Academy 193rd Annual Exhibition, Dublin
Twenty one, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow

2022
In and of itself - abstraction in the age of images, RHA Gallery, Dublin.
Winter Group Show, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
Changing Group Exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022, judged by Hettie Judah, Geraldine Swayne, Grant Scanlan, Thames-Side Studios Gallery
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022, judged by Hettie Judah, Geraldine Swayne, Grant Scanlan, Huddersfield Art Gallery
Walking in Two Worlds part 3, curated by Jonathan Powell; Volcano Theatre, Swansea
RHA Royal Hibernian Academy 192nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin
Generation2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Curated by Anna O'Sullivan

2021
Return to Disintegration—Periodical Review 11, selected by Sheena Barrett, Alice Butler, Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Winter Group Show, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
Changing Group Exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
RHA Royal Hibernian Academy 191st Annual Exhibition, Dublin
Walking in Two Worlds part 2, curated by Jonathan Powell; Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford, Manchester
Walking in Two Worlds part 1, curated by Jonathan Powell; Oriel Carn Gallery, Caernarfon, Wales.
Art Beijing 2021; showing with the Embassy of Ireland, curated by Niamh Cunningham and Peking Art Associates

Awards
2023
Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland

2022
Highly Commended Award and Runner-up Prize, Contemporary British Painting Prize

2021
Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland

Gallery Representation
The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Public Collections
Aberystwyth University, Aberyswyth, Wales, UK
Arts Council of Ireland
Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland
OPW Irish State Art Collection, Ireland

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
‘Here we sit’ is a methodical free-hand ink drawing of close-set chevrons, building up and enclosing at the lower edge two areas of warm glowing colour.