Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction - Curated by Alexandra Steinaker
27 FEBRUARY 2024 - 12 MARCH 2024
Timed Auction
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21. Unskilled Worker
The Boy in Cafe
Charcoal, chalk, ink, gouache and pen on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
This auction is raising proceeds for The Hepatitis C Trust
Curated by Alexandra Steinacker-Clark
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About
Helen Downie is a London based critically acclaimed artist, best known for her idiosyncratic and expressive style of painting. Working under the moniker of Unskilled Worker, Downie’s distinctive style of painting is both intimate and evocative, mixing characters and nature with the ephemeral and fantastical. Her work has been described as ‘a melee of ethereality, innocence, inherent flow and instinct that all come together in a spectacular fashion.’ Downie’s work has attracted a large audience worldwide and has appeared in many international publications. Her paintings are collected nationally and internationally and have been exhibited at galleries across the world including London, Hong Kong, Seoul, Madrid, Italy, Tokyo and Shanghai.
Education
Self-taught
Select Exhibitions/Awards
2023-2024
41st edition of the annual ‘Small is Beautiful’ exhibition, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2022-2023
40th edition of the annual ‘Small is Beautiful’ exhibition, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2022
‘ONE CUP OF SUGAR’ solo exhibition, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2021-2022
39th edition of the annual ‘Small is Beautiful’ exhibition, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2021
‘No Fear in Trying’ Institut London
2021
W1 Curates, London
2020
Hauser & Wirth, London, exhibition & charity auction
2019
The Crossing, London, Los Angeles and Dallas, ‘ONE SMALL STEP’
2019
D MUSEUM, Seoul, ‘I draw’ exhibition
2018
Aki Atelier Gallery, Seoul
2017
Mother, London, ‘The Great Women Artists’
2017
The Qube at PMQ, Hong Kong
2016
Shape Arts Gallery, London, exhibition and charity auction
2015
Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, ‘No Longer/ Not Yet’
Gallery Representation
Self-represented
Statement about AOAP submitted artwork
A few years ago, on International Women’s Day, I was invited, alongside some very impressive and prominent women, to talk at a British television channel. The only man to turn up, in a sea of women, was my son. We need the support and awareness of men.
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