HELEN DENERLEY | a cow, a girl and a dog: new work

Few sculptors anywhere brings so much life to the inanimate, which is what an artist should do, elevate their medium. Egg and pigment, in an artist’s hands, becomes tempera and then a timeless fresco, and a tube of yellow oil paint becomes a sunflower. Helen Denerley does this again and again, ascending heavy unbending scrap, the toughest of mediums, what we have thrown away, into new life. She celebrates the living world, and the history of what we have thrown away.

This exhibition unveils the Denerley’s latest works - a dairy cow, a standing man and a sitting girl. Her chess sets have been transformed into (extremely comfortable) furniture and there are new birds and dogs and, for non-arachnophobics, there spiders too.