Lot 167 - Helen Wilks - Conversation #3

Water crayon and pencil on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Helen Wilks is a narrative painter, probably best known for four cycles of works: ‘Childhood Fragments’; ‘Punch and Judy’; ‘The Inhabited Space’; and ‘Festoni’. She has made and shown many works based on live theatre performances and from time to time undertakes portraits. She produces works on paper, including watercolours, drawings, prints, and handmade books and also draws on ceramics. Her zigzag book The Inhabited Space was published in 2023.

Education
1966 – 9
Bath Academy of Art (Fine Art)

1970 – 1
University of Reading (Fine Art)

1995
MCGI in Fine Art (Independent submission)

Solo Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2019
Studio Open at Festoni, Mantova, Italy

2016
Festoni: Natura Morta, Studio Expurgamento, London

2010
Judy and Punch, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

2009
Punch y Judy, Latinarte, Madrid

2007
The Inhabited Space, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven CT

1998
Childhood Fragments, Freud Museum London

Group Exhibitions
Selected Recent Group Shows:
2024
An Airing, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

2023
The Strange Quotidian, Isolo17, Verona, Italy

2022
Book Art Bookshop, London, UK

2018
Bookworks, Centro Provincial de Arts Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba

2013/14/15
Mask, Secrets and Lies, Please Do Touch, Studio Expurgamento, London, UK

Awards
2009
British Council Artist Award

2005/2024
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency + funding

2003
Nominated for Jerwood Artists Platform Award

1998
John S Coen Foundation (funding for catalogue)

1995
London Arts Board Award

1993
Wandsworth Borough Council, Arts Fund Award

1983
Contemporary Portrait Society (prize winner)

Gallery Representation
Studio Expurgamento, London

Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, Theatre Collection, London, UK
Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, Bethany, USA
Women’s Art Collection, University of Cambridge, UK
Beckett International Foundation, University of Reading, UK
Book Art Archive, LCC, University of the Arts London, UK
Chippenham Museum, The Corsham Collection, Chippenham, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
These four little drawings are conversations. They are part of a larger series about people conversing.