about

Helen Gory is a Melbourne-based artist working across various mediums including collage, painting and charcoal drawing. She has had solo exhibitions in Melbourne and New York, and was the founder and owner of the renowned Helen Gory Gallery.

“Helen Gory’s art pivots upon its connections. Its power lies in its links. Her images seem to unspool and reveal an almost filmic flow of associations.”
– Ken Wach, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne

“Gory’s oil-stick women delve backwards into unrevealed pockets of spaces, memories compartmentalised into separate ‘rooms’. Her challenge – and ours – is to slowly, carefully unpack these subtle chimeras; expose their interior to the outer world… Verging on naïve, these night-shade women hover between darkness and illumination.”
– Vicki Finkelstein, Curator

“The overall effect is a form of epistolary dialogue in which each image was a sentence in the narrative as posited by the artist. While there is a connectedness across the exhibition each collage maintains its identity as individual vignette, reinforced by the insertion of a title under each image […] There is an energy infused into each image, perhaps engendered in the speed in which the artist assembles each collage. This is underscored in the longitudinal layout of the work. The internal combinations – a Renaissance portrait with a photographic image of clicking fingers for example – are ostensibly confusing and contradictory. They however expose the artist’s underlying theme of the disconnectedness that has permeated human relationships in the last few years. The golden blocks offer not only visual caesurae but also spaces for emotional and intellectual solace. This is a cleverly conceived and seductively achieved exhibition that deserves to be seen.”
– Review of Entwine, Canberra Times, 2022

You can find Helen’s full CV here.

I live and work on the sovereign land and waters of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.