Works
  • Helen Cammock, On WindTides, 2024
    On WindTides, 2024
  • Helen Cammock, Tides, 2022
    Tides, 2022
  • Helen Cammock, I Will Keep My Soul, 2022
    I Will Keep My Soul, 2022
  • Helen Cammock, I Will Keep My Soul, 2023
    I Will Keep My Soul, 2023
  • Helen Cammock, They Call It Idlewild, 2023
    They Call It Idlewild, 2023
  • Helen Cammock, 'behind the eye is the promise of rain' at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, 2022
    'behind the eye is the promise of rain' at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, 2022
  • Helen Cammock, Radio Ballads, 2022
    Radio Ballads, 2022
  • Helen Cammock, TFL Art on the Underground, 2021
    TFL Art on the Underground, 2021
  • Helen Cammock, British Art Show 9, 2021
    British Art Show 9, 2021
  • Helen Cammock, Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, 2021
    Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, 2021
  • Helen Cammock, Concrete Feathers, Porcelain Tacks I (Coal Not Dole), 2021
    Concrete Feathers, Porcelain Tacks I (Coal Not Dole), 2021
  • Helen Cammock, I Decided I Want to Walk, 2020
    I Decided I Want to Walk, 2020
  • Helen Cammock, They Call It Idlewild, 2020
    They Call It Idlewild, 2020
  • Helen Cammock, They Call it Idlewild, 2020
    They Call it Idlewild, 2020
  • Helen Cammock, Thought (Diptych) from They Call It Idlewild, 2020
    Thought (Diptych) from They Call It Idlewild, 2020
  • Helen Cammock, Che si può fare, 2019
    Che si può fare, 2019
  • Helen Cammock, Che si può fare, 2019
    Che si può fare, 2019
  • Helen Cammock, Che si può fare, 2019
    Che si può fare, 2019
  • Helen Cammock, Chorus I Che sui può fare, 2019
    Chorus I Che sui può fare, 2019
  • Helen Cammock, Turner Prize, 2019
    Turner Prize, 2019
  • Helen Cammock, Moveable Bridge Triptych, 2017
    Moveable Bridge Triptych, 2017
  • Helen Cammock, Slide Re-enactment Triptych, 2017
    Slide Re-enactment Triptych, 2017
  • Helen Cammock, Moveable Bridge III, 2017
    Moveable Bridge III, 2017
  • Helen Cammock, Moveable Bridge, 2017
    Moveable Bridge, 2017
  • Helen Cammock, There's a Hole in the Sky Part II: Listening to James Baldwin, 2016
    There's a Hole in the Sky Part II: Listening to James Baldwin, 2016
  • Helen Cammock, There's a Hole in the Sky Part I, 2016
    There's a Hole in the Sky Part I, 2016
  • Helen Cammock, Family Portrait, 2015
    Family Portrait, 2015
  • Helen Cammock, Changing Room, 2014
    Changing Room, 2014
Biography

Helen Cammock was born in 1970 in Staffordshire. Film, photography, print, text, song and performance examine mainstream historical and contemporary narratives about Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability, throughout her practice. Her works often cut across time and geography, layering multiple voices as she investigates the cyclical nature of histories in her visual and aural assemblages.

 

Solo show include Pelicans Dive at Half Light, Kate MacGarry, London (2025); Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles and Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, New Orleans (2023); Bass Notes and SiteLines, Amant, Brooklyn, USA (2023); They Call it Idlewild, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada (2023); behind the eye is the promise of rain, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hannover, Germany (2022); Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (2021); Beneath the Surface of Skin, STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021); Che Si Può Fare (What Can be Done), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019); The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019) and VOID Derry, Northern Ireland (2018).

 

Recent group shows includeTime for Women! Empowering Visions in 20 Years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2025); Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 - 2025, ICA, London (2025); Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, UK (2024); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024); WINK WINK, Whitaker Art Gallery and Museum, Rossendale, UK (2023); Breathing, Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany (2022); Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries, London (2022) and Sixty Years: The Unfinished Conversation, Tate Britain, London (2021). In 2023 Cammock received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists. In 2019 she was the joint recipient of The Turner Prize and in 2017 she won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Cammock’s public art commission On WindTides (2024) launched on The Line, London in May 2024.

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