Helen Grant
Keepin’ Up
A visual artist currently based in Bristol, Helen Grant makes wryly humorous objects and installations, exhibiting regularly across the UK and internationally. She is interested in the absurd and the relationships between comedy and pathos, colour and form.
In many recent works, she uses commonplace signs and symbols as the basis for sculpture and installations that question how we relate to and receive information from art and from each other. The very obvious - cliched - messages depicted by her artworks are often only part of what they are saying, with their apparent simplicity underlining what is implied.
‘Keepin' Up’ is an oversized version of a popular children's toy. It is immediately joyful but, on blustery days, begins to spin so frantically that it seems quite desperate. Perhaps it reflects contemporary pressures to be busy and cheerful at all times?
Alongside her practice she co-runs Test Space, a roving artist-led exhibition project, and was formerly a third of notorious collective Back in 5 Squad.
Helen has recently had work selected for: Winter Sculpture Park 2025; Maybe We Can Tangle and Reform, Pistil Collective at Lewisham Arthouse; A Hundredth Link in the Chain, 3D Women at Outhouse Gallery, London and TWO DAYS, Kitform Gallery Bristol, as well as showing at Davis Museum in Barcelona. In June 2025 she was artist in residence at The Farm Artspace Brighton, selected by Fresh Salad.
Bristol