Helen Farrell
Bio
Helen Farrell is a Cork City based artist whose work explores abstraction and figuration, both human and animal, using a multi-media process that encompasses drawing, painting and print.
Her work has been exhibited widely and is held in private and public collections nationally and internationally including The Arts Council of Ireland, The OPW, University College Cork, University College Dublin and the Crawford Art Gallery Cork. She a part-time lecturer in Fine Art at MTU CCAD where she co-founded Drawbridge the drawing research hub.
“The painted canvases each depict scenes and movements that seem to oscillate rapidly between panicky restraint and a more unbridled dynamism, with the sequencing of these partially recognisable forms delicately attuned towards a state of incompleteness. As right-of-access to any clearly defined sense of meaning is disbarred, the viewer is therefore left to wallow in an ocean of chthonic formal relations that encourage the construction of fictive realities.”
Text by Laurence Counihan
From ‘Fetter’ exhibition essay ‘Half-Formed Circuity’ at BAG Studio 12 Project Space 2021
Email helen.farrell@mtu.ie
Membership: Backwater Artists Network 