HELEN DENERLEY
FESTIVAL GARDEN EXHIBITION 2014
HELEN DENERLEY (b.1956) Helen Denerley lives and works on a remote hillside in North East Scotland, in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. Since graduating from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen in 1977 she has worked continuously as a sculptor. Best known in Scotland for her larger-than-life scrap metal giraffes on Leith Walk in Edinburgh, her work has been commissioned in Japan and South Georgia and is in collections across the UK. Helen’s work is the result of meticulous observation and drawing skills combined with a love of the natural world and all the technical aspects of working in metal. The forms are never whole, the use of negative space makes them come alive, creating form where there is only air. Helen has turned this into ‘Positive Space’. Much of her work is made from reused scrap metal and is inspired by the animal world. This year Helen Denerley is transforming our Gallery Garden with a specially made Doe & Fawn deer sculpture. Dotted amongst the foliage, will be some of her garden birds. Helen in her studio, Strathdon, 2014
Doe and Fawn, 2014 scrap metal, 107 x 124 x 23 cms, 61 x 71 x 25.5 cms £10,500
Detail, Roe Deer, 2014 scrap metal, 107 x 124 x 23 cms, 61 x 71 x 25.5 cms
Pigeons scrap metal, 25 cms high approx ÂŁ2200 each
Pair of Garden Birds scrap metal, 13 x 20 x 7 cms ÂŁ600 each
Blackbird scrap metal, 17 x 30 x 10 cms ÂŁ750 each
Selected Public Commissions 2008 Miller’s Yard, Cromarty: Ammonite. (Winner of the IAA Awards for architecture). 2007 Stirling University Courtyard: Three Oyster Catchers. 2006 Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales: Humming Bird Memorial Sculpture. 2005 Omni building, Edinburgh: Dreaming Spires. Two larger-than-life giraffes on the pavement. 2004, 2005 Eniwa Garden Project, Hokkaido: Japan. Dragon railings, arches and birds. 2004 Horizon Scotland, Forres: Sheep and lamb, HotDogs, and Birds for new Enterprise building.
Wagtail scrap metal, 13 x 24 x 7 cms ÂŁ600