Andrew Wilson's catalogue essay for Claremorris Open Exhibition 2013.
The following or acting out of process, which underpins the work of Helen G Blake, is always variously methodical and rational, yet also absurd and affected by the interruption of chance. In Blake’s paintings, colour is deployed to follow a given order and yet these are paintings of nature – Sunset Strips, Lemon Squares, Elephant – not the rigid order of an urban modernism, but the texture and rhythms, and immediacy of life unfolding.
Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain.
Adjudicator, Claremorris Open Exhibition 2013.
The following or acting out of process, which underpins the work of Helen G Blake, is always variously methodical and rational, yet also absurd and affected by the interruption of chance. In Blake’s paintings, colour is deployed to follow a given order and yet these are paintings of nature – Sunset Strips, Lemon Squares, Elephant – not the rigid order of an urban modernism, but the texture and rhythms, and immediacy of life unfolding.
Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain.
Adjudicator, Claremorris Open Exhibition 2013.