Helen Blake grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and graduated with an honours degree in Visual Art from Aberystwyth University, Wales. She lives and works in County Wicklow. She was runner-up for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022.
Other awards include the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award; Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award; County Wicklow Visual Arts Open, Overall Winner, Mermaid Art Centre, Bray, adjudicator Patrick T Murphy, Director, RHA; Artist Support Award and Individual Artist’s Bursary Award, Wicklow County Council Arts Office. In 2015 Helen Blake was the inaugural winner of The Model Cara Award, The Model, Sligo.
Fourteen solo exhibitions to date include five shows at Molesworth Gallery, Dublin; two at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast; Limerick Museum; Mermaid Art Centre, Bray; FUTURES14, RHA, Dublin.
Her paintings have been shown in numerous groups exhibitions, both nationally and in the UK, Europe, Iceland, China and the US, including in both the RHA Dublin and Royal Academy London Annual Exhibitions.
Blake’s work is held in the collections of Aberystwyth University, Arts Council of Ireland, Avolon, Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, Chapter One Restaurant; IPUT, OPW Irish State Art Collection, and Tara Hill School, Gorey, Co Wexford (under the Per Cent for Art scheme).
She is represented by Molesworth Gallery, Dublin and Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast.
Other awards include the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award; Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award; County Wicklow Visual Arts Open, Overall Winner, Mermaid Art Centre, Bray, adjudicator Patrick T Murphy, Director, RHA; Artist Support Award and Individual Artist’s Bursary Award, Wicklow County Council Arts Office. In 2015 Helen Blake was the inaugural winner of The Model Cara Award, The Model, Sligo.
Fourteen solo exhibitions to date include five shows at Molesworth Gallery, Dublin; two at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast; Limerick Museum; Mermaid Art Centre, Bray; FUTURES14, RHA, Dublin.
Her paintings have been shown in numerous groups exhibitions, both nationally and in the UK, Europe, Iceland, China and the US, including in both the RHA Dublin and Royal Academy London Annual Exhibitions.
Blake’s work is held in the collections of Aberystwyth University, Arts Council of Ireland, Avolon, Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, Chapter One Restaurant; IPUT, OPW Irish State Art Collection, and Tara Hill School, Gorey, Co Wexford (under the Per Cent for Art scheme).
She is represented by Molesworth Gallery, Dublin and Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast.