Helen Barff MRSS

“In this time of human conflict and widespread environmental destruction, there is a glimmer of hope in the work of Helen Barff. Evidenced by intriguing, thought provoking castings and drawings, that speak of emptiness and remnants of memory. The show will reflect humanitarian issues. Identifying the power of the human spirit to prevail. 

She explores through communications and conversations with people that span a wide demographic. Since her graduation from Goldsmiths College 1999, she has created an eccentric menagerie of sculptures that take on a presence of animal, human, or something in-between. Her work suggests the complexity of life as well as the mythologies, superstitions and vanities that underpin it the shadowy ‘other’ within us all." Freeny Yianni, Creative Director, Close Ltd

Selected Solo exhibitions: 

I Wrap My Fear Around Me Like A Blanket - Close Ltd 2022

Many and many a day like this - The Stone Space 2021

Memory of Clothes - Worthing Museum 2019

Selected Group exhibitions:

Sunny Side Up, Close Ltd, 2025

Paperworks II, Royal West Academy, 2024

The Foundling Museum, 2023

All the Names, Scrap Metal, Toronto, 2017 - 18
Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition, 2017
Professional development bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company, 2017
Liberties, The Exchange, Penzance, 2016 - 17
Traces and Remains: Inquiries in the Present, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City. 2016
Rabley Contemporary, Wiltshire, 2015
Matter and Memory at Alison Jacques Gallery, 2014
Open Cube at White Cube, London, 2013

She graduated in Fine Art and Art History from Goldsmiths College in 1999 and has an MA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art, 2004.