Aleph Contemporary for AccessArt

‘Imagined Forest’ is a series of works on paper that are studies for a larger painting. Inspired by the forest fires we have witnessed in 2020 and the overwhelming power of nature.

"I make work because it is how I become deeply connected to life. I feel my way through various series and many things emerge from that process very unexpectedly. The difficulty is accepting that certain works are outside your control, like life, it takes its own course." Helen Brough

Awards and Residencies
2020 Arts Council Grant, London UK 
2019 QEST Award (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Award), London UK
2018 Finalist for 1% Nebraska Art Commission Buffett Center, Omaha NE USA 
2004 Triangle Workshop, Brooklyn NY USA
2004 Triangle Artist Residency,  Brooklyn NY USA
1999 Salina Art Center, Salina KS USA
1992 Pollock / Krasner Foundation, New York NY USA
1992 Artist Residency Bemis Foundation for Contemporary Art, Omaha NE USA
1991 Soros Foundation Exhibition Grant, Budapest Hungary
1991 Prince Charles Travel Award, London UK
1991 Prix de Rome  British School of Rome, Rome Italy

Solo Exhibitions 
2021 Bluebell Wood, Avivson Gallery, London UK
2020 Virtual Exhibition, Aleph Contemporary on line,  London UK
2019 Works on paper, Avivson Gallery, London UK
2019 Lightscapes, Nordic Art Agency, Malmo Sweden
2018 Dahlia Cuore at The Melia White House for Frieze Week, London UK
2017 Dahlia Cuore  commissioned by British Land for Broadgate, London UK
2017 AAF Stockholm with Nordic Art, Stockholm  Sweden
2015 From London Mayson Gallery, New York  NY  USA
2012 Oriental Luminescence, Collins Stewart, London UK
2011 Luminous Coningsby Gallery, London   UK
2010 Deliriously Urbane, Coningsby Gallery, London UK
2008 New Works Allen Gallery, New York  NY  USA
2006 Cataclysmic Hypotheses, Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Omaha  NE USA 
2006 Emulated Flora, 70 Washington Street, DUMBO Brooklyn  NY  USA
2003 Urban Movements Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, New York NY USA     
2003 Resins Darkroom Gallery,  Omaha NE  USA
2001 New Works Gallery Elenor Oslo Norway
2000 Draw Jackson Art Works, Omaha NE  USA
1999 Storms Salina Art Center, Salina MO  USA
1995  Mother and ChildLeedy Voulkos gallery, Kansas City KS USA

Group Exhibitions
2021    Artists Walk, Alexander Palace, London UK 
2019    Seasonal Exhibition Nordic Art Agency, Malmo Sweden 
2018    POP UP with the Nordic Art Agency, Malmo Sweden
2017   The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn  NY USA 
2017    The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London  UK
2017    Group Show, Mayson Gallery, New York  NY USA 
2016    The Other Art  Fair, Victoria House , London UK
2016    The Other Art Fair, Arnofini, Bristol UK
2016    The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London UK
2015    Royal Academy Summer Show Royal Academy, London UK
2014    At Home with Marcelle Joseph, Ascot UK
2014    Illuminated, Marburae Gallery, London UK
2014    New Sculpture Projects, London Festival of Architecture, London UK
2013    Sublimate Sublime Subliminal The underdog Gallery, London UK
2013    Sublimate  Sublime Subliminal, The Lloyds Club, London UK
2012    Passionate Dynamics, Elga Wimmer Gallery,  New York  NY  USA
2010    Eye World, Triple Candie, New York  NY  USA
2009    The Business of Aura Elga Wimmer gallery, New York  NY  USA
2008     Curiouser and Curiouser, Rebecca Kormind gallery, Copenhagen  Denmark
2008     Nature Interrupted, Chelsea Art Museum, New York NY  USA
2007     SCOPE  Art Basel, Miami FL  USA
2007    Helen Brough and Josette Urso Allen gallery,  New York NY USA 
2006     American Exposure Allen Gallery, Memphis TN USA
2006    DUMBO Art Center Winter auction DUMBO, Brooklyn  NY  USA
2006    Open studios  DUMBO Arts Festival DUMBO, Brooklyn  NY USA
2006    London Art Fair Waterhouse & Dodd - Switch Art Library, London UK
2005    Building Blocks Plaza 5, Jersey City  NJ USA
2005    Affordable Art Fair Laumont Editions, New York  NY  USA
2004    Random Selections George Waters Gallery, Elmira NY  USA
2004    Projects 04, Islip Art Museum, Islip NY USA
2002   London Connection  Kristen Frederickson Gallery,  New York, NY  USA
2001   Colour Stories Dark Room Gallery, Omaha, NE  USA                  
1998   Experimental Glass Jackson Art Works, Omaha NE USA
1996   Bemis Alumni Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City  IA USA 

Selected Collections
Paul Smith, London UK
Collins  Stewart   Hawkpoint  Canacord, London    UK
Cantor  Fitzgerald  Collection, New York  NY  USA
Two Trees 70 Washington St DUMBO, Brooklyn  NY  USA
William  Louis  Dreyfus Collection, New York NY USA
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha NE USA
National Art Museum, Budapest  Hungary
Ashurst  Corporation, London UK
Bemis  Center  for Contemporary Art, Omaha  NE  USA
Omaha Steaks,  Omaha  NE USA                  

Selected Press
2003   Urban Mover by Mathew Herek, Medium Magazine
2004   Smart enough to be DUMBO by David Cohen, Art Critical .Com
2004   Times were hard, yet art flourished by Helen Harrison, New York Times   
2006   At the galleries by Karen Wilkin, Hudson Review   
2006   An explosion of color, and of Bridal White by David Cohen, The New York  Sun 
2007   Modern Day patrons who set artists free by Pamela Ryckman, Financial Times
2012   Art and Architecture by Mark Webble, North London Magazine
2017   Shaped by design season at Broadgate, Art Rabbit 

Education
1990          M.A. Sculpture     Chelsea School of Art                                                    London UK
1989          B.A.  First Class  Sculpture Chelsea School of Art                                    London  UK 

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