Helen Cammock

Helen Cammock is an artist whose practice spans film, photography, print, text, song and performance. Her work examines mainstream historical and contemporary narratives about Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability. Cammock’s works often cut across time and geography, layering multiple voices; investigating the cyclical nature of histories in her visual and aural assemblages. Throughout her practice is an interest in storytelling; who gets to tell stories, who they’re telling them for and why.

In 2017, Cammock won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and in 2019 was the joint recipient of the Turner Prize. She has exhibited and performed worldwide with recent and current solo shows including I Will Keep My Soul, UNO Gallery, New Orleans, USA; Bass Notes and SiteLines, Amant, New York, USA (2023); I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, USA, (2023); Behind The Eye Is The Promise Of Rain, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hannover, Germany (2022); Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2021), Beneath the Surface of Skin; STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021); They Call It Idlewild, Wysing, UK (2020); Che Si Può Fare, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2019); Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019) and The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019); VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland (2018). She has participated in group shows including Breathing, Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany (2022) and Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2022).