Helen Braun between the sinister and the sublime
Aug 10 - Sept 1 2024
Helen Braun
“From towering forests, to fuzzy bread mould, crack sprouted seeds to lush tree fern valleys, microscopic organisms to leaf litter crawl and estuaries of everything, we are not apart. The entwine of the natural world evolves; a cast of shadows and reflections, languages brittle soft flowing still, insistently informing my makings. Ambiguous cuttings of black paper, clear sharp glass, translucent parings. Reflective musings to the clash and caper of nature, where beauty and horror sit side by side, the sinister and the sublime holding embrace within the constancy of change.”
Materiality as a base for creative possibility has long been an important component within Helen Braun’s art practice, commencing as a ceramic artist at CIT in Melbourne. After some years as a studio potter, Helen returned to study in Visual Arts and an Honours degree in Fine Art Sculpture at Monash University. Working out of her suburban garden studio based in Melbourne, Helen has consistently exhibited her work in many solo exhibitions and numerous shows over a period of more than four decades.
Helen’s conceptual works evolve from her deep joy awe and love of nature and serendipitously, expanded with the acquisition of a clutch of repurposed materials, ideal for relating her responsive curiosities. Further lines of unique gesture and narrative unfolded. Fine paper parings, printmaking, laboratory glassware, materials imbued of fragility and strength, as medium for intricate installation assemblage works. Compositions for drawing subtle contours of correlation, to the innate strength and fragility of the natural world.
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Julie Collins - Director gallery@djprojects.net
0417324 795
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21 Morce Ave Sorrento, Victoria, Australia
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Price $300
1. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
x 10 x 10 cms
3 x 10 x 10 cms
Price $300
2. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
Price $300
3. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
3 x 10 x 10 cms
3 x 10 x 10 cms
Price $300
4. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
Price $300
5. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
3 x 10 x 10 cms
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Price $300
6. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
x 10 x 10 cms
Price - $260
7. Untitled –
5 x 7.5 x 23 cms
Glass, acrylic, pigment on wax paper
Price $300
8. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
3 x 10 x 10 cms
Price $240
9. Untitled –
5 x 7.5 x 25 cms
Glass, acrylic, pigment on wax paper
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$800
10. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, glass, acrylic
x 12 x 30 cms
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$300
11. Untitled glass, paper, pigment, acrylic
x 15 x 15 cms
$300
12. Untitled glass, paper, pigment
10 x 10 x 15 cms
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13. Untitled glass, paper, pigment
x 18 x 20 cms
$270
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$300
14. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
x 10 x 10 cms
Price $300
15. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
3 x 10 x 10 cms
26 x 36 x 30 cms variable
$700
16. Untitled glass, paper, pigment, acrylic
43
$790
17. Untitled paper, pigment on paper
x 43 cms framed
$600
18. Untitled glass, paper, pigment, acrylic
8 x 8 x 30 cms
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$700
19. Untitled paper, pigment on paper
x 45 cms
43 x 43 cms
$750
20. Untitled paper, pigment on paper
21. Untitled glass, paper, pigment, acrylic
20 x 20 x 32 cms
$800
$750
22. Untitled paper, glass, pigment, acrylic
10 x 20 x 29 cms
3 x 10 x 10 cms
Price $300
23. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
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Price $300
24. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
x 10 x 10 cms
Price $300
25. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
3 x 10 x 10 cms
Price $300
26. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
3 x 10 x 10 cms
Price $300
27. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
3 x 10 x 10 cms
Price $ 120
28. Untitled –
Glass, acrylic, pigment on wax paper
5 x 5 x 12 cms
Price $250
29. Untitled –
5 x 7,5 x 28 cms
Glass, aluminum, acrylic, black paper
3 x 10 x 10 cms
Price $300
30. Untitled –pigment on wax paper, black paper, glass, acrylic
Education
Helen Braun - C.V.
Bachelor of Fine Arts Sculpture, Honours, Monash University
Diploma of Visual Arts, Chisholm Institute
Associate Diploma Applied Ceramics, C.I.T.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Harmonics of Light, Firestation Print Gallery, Malvern, Vic
2022 Merge – collection connection, Alternating Current Gallery, Windsor, Vic
2021 Elements, Various Space Gallery, Foster, Victoria
2019 Preserve, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, Queensland
2018 Measure, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford Vic
2017 Creep, Tendrils of elegance and stealth, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbottsford, Vic
2012 The Space Between Light, Amelie Camille Gallery, Collingwood, Vic
2010 Evolution, Yarra Sculpture Space, Abbotsford, Vic
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Under the same Umbrella, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Vic
2023 Wearable Art, Firestation Print Gallery, Armadale, Vic
2023 Sculpture Now, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Vic
2022 Door to Door, Artavisio, LITE-HAUS Galarie + Projection, Berlin, Germany
2022 Sculpture Now, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Vic
2022 Biennial Artist Book Show, Fire Station Gallery, Armadale, Vic
2021 Earthly delights, Ladder Space Gallery, Kew, Victoria
2020 Artaviso, Door to Door, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2020 Blossom and flourish, Firestation Print Gallery, Armadale, Armadale, Vic
2020 Pause Button, Old Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria
2020 FPS Artists Book Prize, Fire Station Print Gallery, Armadale Vic
2019 Summer Salon, Fires Station Print Studio, Armadale, Vic
2019 Southern Highlands Print Exchange, Bowral, N.S.W.
2019 CSA – Bonanza Sculpture Show 2019, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford. V
2019 RSVP Part II, FPS Gallery, Armadale, Vic
2019 Small Sculpture Show, Stockyard Gallery, Foster, Sth Gippsland, Vic.
2019 Southern Highlands Print Exchange, Fire Station Print Gallery, Armadale, Victoria
2018 Hiraeth – WAC, Tacit Studio Art, Abbotsford, Victoria
2018 Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria
2018 Three Hundred, West End Art Space, West Melbourne, Victoria
Awards and Prizes
2024 Bienniel Artist Book Prize, Firestation Print Space
2024 Finalist, Biblio Art Prize, Blarney Art Gallery, Port Fairy, Vic
2021 Finalist, Still Life Prize, Tacit Galleries, Abbotsford, Vic
2020 Finalist, Biblio Art Prize, Blarney Books and Gallery, Port Fairy, Vic
2020 Finalist, Metamorph, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Finalist, Editions 2020, Tacit Galleries, Abbotsford, Vic
2019 Finalist, Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards, Yarra alley, Victoria
2019 Finalist, Editions 2019, Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Vic
2018 Finalist, Commencement, Gloss over Rawness, West End Art Space, West Melbourne
2015 Finalist, Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards,Yarra Valley, Victoria
2014 Finalist, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne, Victoria
Artist Residences
2022 Bilpin Ground for Creative Initiatives, (BigCi) Bilpin, N.S.W
2019 Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, Queensland
2018 Winter, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Vic
2015 Cataract Gorge, Basin Cottage, Launceston, Tasmania
Collections and Commissions
Private collections, Melbourne Victoria, Brisbane Queensland,
Private commissions, Melbourne Victoria, Hellensberg, Germany