Constructions
July 2-12, 2003
Helen Albion | paintings | space 2

Helen Albion, unlike many visual artists, has a sculptural approach to painting. What she terms her ‘semi-three-dimensional’ pieces are mounted on gallery walls like conventional canvases, but require the viewer to shift position around them.

She has built her reputation working with discarded materials – most notably industrial plastics, wire and pallets. Her latest collection Constructions cuts and pastes its influences from the urban landscape, from industrial signage to packaging.

However, Helen is not interested in the branded exterior (e.g. the shiny box of a shelf-stacked product) but the protective moulding that’s hidden inside. Patterns and surfaces often overlooked are thus amplified and simultaneously ignored. “It’s like sampling,” she says.

One of the pieces on display here is the starting point for a new direction, in which surfaces are sculpted in cross section.

Helen’s work has been seen at the Whitworth Young Contemporaries exhibition, Bristol’s Watershed, and most recently at the Stuff Gallery, London E2. All her work is untitled.