Helen Cass
Helen Cass works in a process-based way with line, repetition and surface as central preoccupations, interested in the minutest variations of material and procedure that produce ‘difference’ through repetition. Making work with paper by scoring, folding, weaving, stitching, staining and drawing with a fine mapping nib. The line is drawn as close to the line before as possible. A quasi-mechanical activity which is doomed to imperfection, it creates a field of frisson/noise/interference that is specifically autobiographic. Therefore the most systematic procedure is not merely pure process – it is actually producing a drawing that is intimately expressive.
Helen studied at The Ruskin School of Fine art and Drawing, University of Oxford (1993-96) at Institute of Education at UCL (1996-97)and at the School of Art at Aberystwyth, University of Wales (1999-2000). She has worked in education alongside studio practice since 2000. Currently member of ‘Fold’ Artists’ Collective (Artists working in Rural Environments). Recently included in ‘Lines of Empathy’ project devised by Giulia Ricci, exhibited at Patrick Heide, London and Close Ltd, Somerset. Awarded the Drawing Prize at the RWA Open in 2023 and elected to be Academician at the RWA in 2025.
Recent selected exhibitions Constructed at Gallery 57, Arundel West Sussex, Paper Works RWA, Bristol, A Room of One’s Own’ Irving Gallery, Oxford, Drawing Invitational at Corners Gallery Ithaca NY, Candidates Show in the Kenny Gallery at the RWA, Bristol, Antidote Oriel Canfas, Cardiff, Anniversary 21 show at Jaggedart, London.
She lives and works in Herefordshire
Gallery images:
- Displacement Grid ink on paper 61x86xm 2023
- Folded 15 ink on paper 61x76cm. 2023
- Golden Ground 4 ink on paper 47x60cm. 2025
- Mapping 31 ink on paper. 61x76cm 2023
- Mapping 32 ink on paper 61x76cm 2023
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