Helen Marten

Helen Marten studied at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London and Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford (2005-2008). In 2016 she was awarded the Turner Prize. Marten works across sculpture, painting, video and writing to create a body of work that questions the stability of the material world and our place within it. Alluding to ideas, systems and experiences, her work across all media sets out to articulate complex ideas about the way in which we exist in and understand the world around us. Marten assigns central importance to physical reality and craftsmanship. In her selection of materials she explores the questions as to how expectation translate into material language - how material could be used for its specific location for a new narrative, or which materials can be associated with which characteristics, and, correspondingly, already “belong” to a fixed set of associations.