helena cardow
I’m delighted to have two of my artworks - Abstraction is above you (2019) and Thinly veiled compliment (2019) - selected for this years ING Discerning Eye Exhibition! Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the exhibition will be held entirely, with a virtual gallery opening on 19 November and running until 31 December 2020.
Abstraction is above you (2019)
Thinly veiled compliment (2019)
I‘m delighted to announce that photographs from my Sustain Series will be exhibited in this group show, curated by Christine Iatrou and held at The Old Biscuit Factory in London. The exhibition will open to the public on Friday 22th November, 6-9pm with a free opening event and it will be open every day from 11am to 6pm, until 28th November.
I’m thrilled to have my painting, selected for this year’s ING Discerning Eye exhibition! The show runs from the 14th -24th November at the Mall Galleries, London and will feature works by lots of artists from across the UK, catch it if you can!
I’m thrilled to have been selected for this year’s Islington Arts Factory’s Summer Salon! Two of my recent paintings will be exhibited in the Salon, which runs from 21st June-12th July 2019. The Private View will be on Friday 21st June, from 6.30pm - 9.30pm, entry is free and all are welcome!
My latest ongoing body of work, flesh, is a series of figurative oil paintings based on the classical composition of bodies and fruit. Framing the traditional motif of the Nude with fruit and vegetables in a contemporary juxtaposition of 'safe' still life and 'risque' nakedness, to highlight how the world ‘ripe’ is used to describe both implying they are both things to be consumed. The consumption of the fruit into the body, consumption of the body through the eyes of the viewer.
Flesh is portraiture based in the landscape of food, featuring fruit and foods produced and consumed in the UK, through the feminist lens of dismantling the traditional male gaze. The fruit and meats in the compositions allude to global issues of farming and agriculture, contained within the ethical and ecological concerns of climate change, GMO foods and industrial farming, and changing habits in consumption especially with note to veganism.
I’m excited to be exhibiting my Sustain Series photographs as part of Cuntemporary’s upcoming group show, Eco Trash! Deep Trash is a bi-annual event which features live, uncensored and challenging performances, installations, artworks and visuals in East London’s legendary Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. The exhibition will show art from over 40 international artists whose works explore present and future visions of our ecological landscapes in a variety of utopic possibilities and dystopic realities.
The venue will be open from 8pm, with a 1-hour curated screening on loop. The event will also include an exhibition, interactive and immersive installations and all-night performances that address sexuality, gender and race in relation to the environment and ecology.
DEEP TRASH Eco Trash
Friday 19 April 2019
presented as part of Ecofutures Festival
at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
£10/12/15
20:00-02:00 (last entry midnight)
I am so happy to announce that I have been chosen as one of 40 boundary breaking artists to exhibit in Empowerment, a show co-curated by Creative Debuts and Nasty Women Exhibition in collaboration with Nasty Women North East, Nasty Women London, and Nasty Women in Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Brussels.
To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, part of the money raised from the exhibition will be donated to End Violence Against Women Coalition to protect women’s rights worldwide. Come and show your support for myself and all the fantastic artists from 7pm on 8 March! RSVP essential #EmpowermentLDN
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nasty-women-exhibition-tickets-41383378800
