Helen Shaddock: July 2024

I am delighted to be exhibiting my drawing 'Speedy Gonzales' in the Summer Open 2024 Exhibition at Gallagher and Turner.

Hope you can make it along to the exhibition.

SUMMER OPEN 2024

Gallagher & Turner

30 St. Mary's Place, Newcastle, NE1 7PQ

Preview: Friday 12th July, 6-8pm

Exhibition: 13th July – 10th August 2024

Selected Artists:

Olamide Ayomipo Adesola, Nick Banks, Harry Bell , Emma Bennett, Mr Mark R Bletcher, Tanya Bentham, Joanna Bourne, Alfons Bytautas, Hannah Campion, Marilou Chagnaud, Andrew Cheetham, Chun-Chao Chiu, Rae Clarke, Qi Fang Colbert, Janet E Davis, Lewis Dimmick, Seanna Doonan, Jennifer Douglas, Dotty Earl, Katy Fortune, Andrew Frith, Ceri Green, Peter Hanmer, Bethan Harris, Imogen Hawgood, Lawrie Hutcheon, Peter Hanmer, Wendy Rose Heath, Jayne Johnson, Stuart Jones, Bernadette Koranteng, Maria Laffey, Paul Merrick, Jasmine Nattrass, Kevin Petrie, Rhiannon Robinson, Beth J Ross, Jane Sanders, Lucy May Schofield , Holly Magdalene Scott, Kate Miller, Richard Scott, Deborah Snell, Helen Shaddock, Kate Sweeney, Elizabeth Talbot, Errol Theunissen, Anna Turnbull, Åse Vikse, Claire Ward, Lucy Waters, Brenda Watson, Katie Watson, Caitlin Whitaker, Andrew Winnard, Lesley Wood, Sam Wood, Yixue Yang

Image: Alfons Bytautas, Together, 2022, Acrylic & collage on panel, 30 X 30 cm

Statement

I am an artist making work that incorporates installation, video, sound, sculpture, performance, & writing to explore the human condition. I investigate ways to immerse the audience in multi-layered psychological & physical situations. I trained at Leeds College of Art & Design (Foundation), Glasgow School of Art (BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture & Environmental Art) and Newcastle University (Masters of Fine Art). My lived experience of eating distress & obsessive compulsive disorder informs the work I create & the way I work. Some of the consequences of living with these conditions are that rigour, routine & attention to detail are fundamental to my way of life, all of which are integral to my creative practice; using the constraints of systems, I allow chance & playful elements to create unexpected results. My work is regularly exhibited in solo & group exhibitions across the UK, USA, Canada & South Korea & is contained in various public collections. I have a number of public artworks, been commissioned to produce site-specific work & have taken part in national & international residencies, consistently since 2005. 2020-21 Awarded Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice funding for a printmaking residency with Charrington Editions Byre-Group exhibition in which I created a site-specific installation alongside some creative writing Everything Will Be Alright-an audio installation at Cheeseburn Sculpture, commission by curator Matthew Jarratt Filling Time-a watercolour calendar-based work, currently exhibited at BALTIC centre for contemporary art Lockdown Diary-a daily online process since March 2020, that has been acquired by the Wellcome Collection Home Time-a creative tool for public, inspired by Lockdown Diary, commissioned by New Writing North Inclusion in a new Alec Finlay publication. I work in my studio at NewBridge Projects in Newcastle & as well as my solo work I collaborate with David Foggo as marginendeavour; I am often invited to speak to students, artists & facilitate workshops. Website: www.helenshaddock.co.uk Blog: https://helenshaddock.blogspot.co.uk/ Twitter: @hshaddock Instagram: /helenshaddock Facebook: /helen.shaddock Vimeo: /hshaddock YouTube: /helenshaddock LinkedIn: /helen-shaddock