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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Softly hooked
2022
Acrylic paint, steel
Silver: 520 x 90 x 85mm
Pink: 472 x 85 x 85mm
Yellow: 580 x 75 x 85mm
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Softly hooked
2022
Acrylic paint, steel
Green blue: 475 x 100 x 85mm
Blue: 660 x 100 x 85mm
Blue green: 462 x 130 x 85mm
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Softly hooked
2022
Acrylic paint, steel
From 470 - 580mm height
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Softly hooked
2022
Acrylic paint, steel
From 462 - 660mm height
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Hanging (Red)
2023
Acrylic paint, steel
1420 x 185 x 30mm
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Hanging (Red and Orange)
2023
Acrylic paint, steel
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Installation view
Aired & Softly hooked
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Aired
2023
Acrylic paint, steel
1150 x 2000 x 110mm
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Aired
2023
Acrylic paint, steel
1150 x 2000 x 110mm
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Aired
2023
Installation view
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Aired
2023
Installation view
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Airing June '23
2023
Acrylic paint, steel
660 x 1655 x 30mm
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Airing June '23
2023
Acrylic paint, steel
660 x 1655 x 30mm
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Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Standing
2023
Acrylic paint, steel
1945 x 1900 (2 screens)
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The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Installation view
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The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Installation view
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The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
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The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
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The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
Helen Calder
28 Jun – 22 Jul 2023
“These works embrace the agency of paint itself, and seem to revel in both its liquid viscosity and its tactile plasticity. Calder’s process suggests a constant state of entanglement or negotiation in which she is working both with and against the material itself. Petra Lange-Berndt has pointed out that ‘from a critical perspective, the term ‘material’ describes not prime matter but substances that are always subject to change, be it through handling, interaction with their surroundings, or the dynamic life of their chemical reactions’.[1] To speak of ‘material’ is thus to speak of substances that are vibrant, mutable, and responsive. Certainly this is a way of thinking and working with paint that underpins Calder’s practice”.
Barbara Garrie, 2023
[1] Petra Lange-Berndt, ‘Introduction: How to Be Complicit with Materials’ in Materiality (London and Cambridge, Mass,: Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2015)
“Helen Calder makes three-dimensional paintings that investigate the interface of painting and sculpture. Her painting explores the limits of the medium offering a direct physical engagement with the materiality of paint, its weight, tactility and malleability and colour. These paint-skins, as she calls them, hang in space – free to flutter and move. Concern with colour, form and how painting operates in space when freed of its traditional support on canvas and stretcher is at the heart of Helen Calder’s practice”. Alison Bartley
Based in Christchurch, Helen graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury in 2003. Her thesis on painting’s relationship with architecture has shaped her practice which sees architectural space as a frame for her work. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Christchurch Art Gallery, the Chartwell Collection, the Fletcher Trust Collection and Simpson Grierson Collection.
Recent exhibitions include Kaleidescope: Abstract Aotearoa, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2018, Qualia 760-620 λ, Enjoy Public Gallery, Wellington, 2014, Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker, curated by Justin Paton and Felicity Milburn, Christchurch Art Gallery, 2014; and Unpainted, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin 2014.