Helen Cammock

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Helen Cammock (2018)

Helen Cammock (* 1970 in Staffordshire ) is a British artist. In 2019 she received the Turner Prize together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan , Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani . For the first time in its history, this award went to all nominees - at their express request. Cammock works with a variety of media including film , photography , poetry , spoken word , singing , print and installation .

life and work

Cammock is the daughter of a Jamaican art teacher and a British woman. When she was twelve, the family moved from London to Somerset . Desperate about the move, Cammock began playing guitar and singing. She was discovered by a promoter while performing at a folk club to which her mother drove her. She then performed regularly in British clubs until she began her training.

Cammock trained as a social worker and worked in the profession for ten years. However, she became more and more disillusioned and frustrated because she was no longer able to properly care for her charges due to spending cuts. She then began studying photography at the University of Brighton .

After graduating from Brighton, she was invited to work for the Brighton Photo Fringe Festival . There she worked as co-director for four years. At the festival, a tutor from the Royal College of Art saw one of her films and invited her to study with him. She graduated there in 2011 while continuing to work for Brighton Photo Fringe.

During this time she began to write regularly - originally to reduce her workload. Since then, Cammock has also been a journalist. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize .

Cammock deals with history and storytelling in her work. The central element of this is often the voice: the unheard, marginalized voice, your own voice, or the question of who is speaking for whom and under what circumstances. She uses her own or other texts for her work, e.g. B. by Nina Simone , Philip Larkin , James Baldwin , Maya Angelou or Walter Benjamin . Her art often feeds on the experiences she has made in her work with people.

In 2019, Cammock won the Turner Prize together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani . The decision of the jury for the first time to honor all artists who were shortlisted came as a surprise. The four prizewinners had come up with the plan at their first joint meeting at Turner Contemporary and then asked the jury to split the prize among all four “in the name of community, diversity and solidarity”. The jury complied with the request. At the award ceremony, Cammock read out a statement in which the artists position themselves against a “strengthening of the right and a renewal of fascism in a conservative, hostile environment”.

Exhibitions

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tate: Turner Prize 2019: Helen Cammock. In: tate.org. Retrieved December 6, 2019 (UK English).
  2. ↑ Carsten Probst in conversation with Sigrid Brinkmann: Turner Prize 2019 goes to all nominees - a sensation in the art world. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. Deutschlandradio, December 3, 2019, accessed on December 6, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Brighton graduate nominated for £ 40,000 Turner Prize. In: University of Brighton. May 3, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Artist Story: Helen Cammock at Fabrica, Brighton. In: Fast Forward. University for the Creative Arts, Farnham / Photography Department, April 27, 2017, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  5. ^ Charlotte Higgins: 'I was terrible at drawing': Helen Cammock, the social worker who became a Turner prize nominee. In: theguardian.com. Guardian News & Media Limited, June 18, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Helen Cammock wins the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery. In: Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Mark Brown: Turner prize awarded four ways after artists' plea to judges. In: theguardian.com. Guardian News & Media Limited, December 3, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ tagesschau.de: Turner Prize: Sensation in the British art world. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Cubitt Gallery Cubitt Gallery is part of an artist-led organization based in Islington, London We promote innovative curatorial practice with an 18-month Bursary, Supporting Curators at the Beginning of Their Careers: Helen Cammock: exhibition, interview and performance . 20th September 2017.
  10. ↑ Helen Cammock wins the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery ( en )

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personal data
SURNAME Cammock, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Staffordshire