Cammock was the joint winner of the Turner Prize 2019 and her exhibition The Long Note, was presented at Turner Contemporary, Margate as part of Turner Prize, 2019. She was winner of the 7th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Her subsequent exhibition, Che Si Può Fare (What Can Be Done) premiered at Whitechapel Gallery, London from June – September 2019 and then moved to Collezione Maramotti, Italy. Her film They Call It Idelwild, 2020 commissioned by Wysing was shown at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and is currently part of a new show I decided I Want To Walk at Kate MacGarry, London.
A new film Concrete Feather and Porcelain Tacks, has been commissioned with Film and Video Umbrella, London; Touchstones Museum, Rochdale, and The Photographers Gallery, London and will be exhibited in solo exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery and Rochdale Museum in 2021. Later this year Serpentine Gallery, London will present Cammock’s project Radio Ballad: Bass Notes and Sitelines, a radio programme and series of live performance events.
The Long Note premiered at VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland; and showed at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2019. Other solo exhibitions include I Decided I Want to Walk, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London (2020), The Sound of Words, Reading Museum, UK (2019) and Shouting In Whispers, Cubitt, London (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at; Somerset House, Hollybush Gardens, London and FirstSite, Colchester, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and she has staged performances at The Showroom, Whitechapel Gallery and the ICA in London and a Maramotti Collection, Italy.
Cammock was born in Staffordshire, UK in 1970 and lives and works in Brighton and London. She is represented by Kate MacGarry, London.
Read Lisa Panting’s LUX New Artist Focus commissioned text on Helen Cammock’s moving image practice here.
