helen murphy
Originally from New Zealand, Helen Murphy graduated in 2006 with an MA in Textiles from Goldsmiths College.
Informed by early avant-garde traditions, Helen appropriates the language of media and advertising, which she manipulates and recontextualises within a critique of the global corporate culture industries.
Predominantly working with repetitive pattern and layered photographic imagery, she employs a range of digital and hand print techniques to convey ideas related to representation, and the marketing of desire and identity. Through a process of layering she creates a three dimensional, hyper’real quality to her generic portraits, exploring the cult of celebrity, and the blurring of boundaries between image and reality.
Helen works within a variety of formats, from two dimensional imagery, to sculpture, through to large scale multi media installations.
Having exhibited in New Zealand and across the UK, Helen currently lives and works in London. For the past year she has been assisting at the Whitecross Gallery, and has recently taken on the role of gallery curator.
