CV
HELLE COOK | CV - ARTIST RESUME
Helle Cook | Brisbane/Meanjin QLD, Australia | Australian & Danish dual Citizen (Born in Denmark)
helle@ozcooks.com | +61431872706
www.hellecook.com | Instagram: @hellecook
BIO | ARTIST STATEMENT:
Helle Cook is a Danish-Australian artist based in Brisbane. Cook's art practice explores the embodied and sensory experience of light, place and belonging in expanded painting. Through the lens of light Cook draws parallels between Australian and Nordic Light. Evocative and immersive, Cook’s work lingers in the threshold between abstraction and figuration and invites the viewer to connect with our own sensory perception and imagination. Cook holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Queensland College of Art (QCA) and has had solo- and group exhibitions in Queensland, Victoria and Denmark. Cook’s painterly enquiry is intercultural and she has undertaken artist residencies in Australia, Italy and Denmark.
EDUCATION:
2018-2019: BA Fine Art Honours. Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2014-2017: Bachelor of Fine Art - Major in Painting and Art Theory. QCA, Griffith University
2010-2013: Diploma of Visual Art. SBIT - Southbank Institute of Technology, Brisbane
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021: Current: March - May: Sheer Light. Redland Art Gallery, Capalaba. QLD
2020: March - April: Community of Light. Hub Gallery - Caboolture Regional Art Gallery. QLD
2019: June - October: Veils of Trees. Outdoor textile installation, Hollufgård. Odense, Denmark
2019: May: Suspended Light. QCA Galleries, Southbank Brisbane. QLD
2018: September - November: Blurred Boundaries. Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
2017: March - April: Notion of Home. QCA Galleries, Southbank Brisbane. QLD
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2020: November - December: VACAY. Gala Gallery, Rockhampton
2020: October: Art for Armenia. Online exhibition. Plexus Gallery, Brisbane
2020: August: Virtually Live. Online exhibition. Plexus Gallery, Brisbane
2020: February: Boiling Point. The Third Quarter, Brisbane.
2019: November: Ellipsis (...). QCA BA Fine Art Honours Graduation Exhibition, Brisbane
2018: October: InterScape. House Conspiracy Showcase, Westend, Brisbane
2018/19: July - January: Outside In Exhibition. Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital, Brisbane
2017: October: World Scapes. Woolloongabba Art Gallery (WAG Upstairs)
2017: June: Finding Freedom. Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane
2017: June: Nundah Art Show. Nundah Community Centre
2016: November - December: The Ambience Store Project #009. New Farm, Brisbane
2015: December: HTTP://Re-productive. QCA Galleries, Southbank, Brisbane
2015: November: Showcase, QCA Graduation Exhibition, Brisbane. BA Fine Art Painting Major.
2014: January - February: Transfer. Showart Gallery, South Brisbane
2013: November: Zenith 150. SBIT (TAFE) Graduation Exhibition, Brisbane
ARTIST RESIDENCIES:
2021: Upcoming: May: Artist in Residence at Metro Arts' Ferryman Hut, Tenneriffe, Brisbane.
2020: August (postponed due to Covid): Artist in Residence at Hollufgård Art Residency (GAH), Denmark
2019: May - June: Artist in Residence at Hollufgård Art Residency (GAH), Denmark
2019: May - June: Artist Residence at Rural Residency for Contemporary Art (RUC), Northern Italy
2018: October: Artist in Residence & InterScape Showcase, House Conspiracy, Westend Brisbane
2017: Aug-Sep: Artist in Residence & Showcase, Hollufgård Art Residency (GAH), Denmark
PRIZES / MEDIA:
2020: Media: Exhibition essay https://culturalflanerie.com/2020/03/02/helle-cook-community-of-light/
2019: Women’s Work Exhibition & Prize, RQAS, Brisbane
2018/19: Collins Place Gallery Summer Salon, Melbourne. Art prize Finalist, exhibition Dec 2018-Feb 2019
2018: Artworld Landscape Prize, Brisbane: Finalist
2017: Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award, Brisbane: Online finalist
2017: Media: http://bneart.com/writing/helle-cook-notion-of-home-2/ - published essay (solo exhibition)
Helle Cook | Brisbane/Meanjin QLD, Australia | Australian & Danish dual Citizen (Born in Denmark)
helle@ozcooks.com | +61431872706
www.hellecook.com | Instagram: @hellecook
BIO | ARTIST STATEMENT:
Helle Cook is a Danish-Australian artist based in Brisbane. Cook's art practice explores the embodied and sensory experience of light, place and belonging in expanded painting. Through the lens of light Cook draws parallels between Australian and Nordic Light. Evocative and immersive, Cook’s work lingers in the threshold between abstraction and figuration and invites the viewer to connect with our own sensory perception and imagination. Cook holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Queensland College of Art (QCA) and has had solo- and group exhibitions in Queensland, Victoria and Denmark. Cook’s painterly enquiry is intercultural and she has undertaken artist residencies in Australia, Italy and Denmark.
EDUCATION:
2018-2019: BA Fine Art Honours. Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2014-2017: Bachelor of Fine Art - Major in Painting and Art Theory. QCA, Griffith University
2010-2013: Diploma of Visual Art. SBIT - Southbank Institute of Technology, Brisbane
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021: Current: March - May: Sheer Light. Redland Art Gallery, Capalaba. QLD
2020: March - April: Community of Light. Hub Gallery - Caboolture Regional Art Gallery. QLD
2019: June - October: Veils of Trees. Outdoor textile installation, Hollufgård. Odense, Denmark
2019: May: Suspended Light. QCA Galleries, Southbank Brisbane. QLD
2018: September - November: Blurred Boundaries. Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
2017: March - April: Notion of Home. QCA Galleries, Southbank Brisbane. QLD
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2020: November - December: VACAY. Gala Gallery, Rockhampton
2020: October: Art for Armenia. Online exhibition. Plexus Gallery, Brisbane
2020: August: Virtually Live. Online exhibition. Plexus Gallery, Brisbane
2020: February: Boiling Point. The Third Quarter, Brisbane.
2019: November: Ellipsis (...). QCA BA Fine Art Honours Graduation Exhibition, Brisbane
2018: October: InterScape. House Conspiracy Showcase, Westend, Brisbane
2018/19: July - January: Outside In Exhibition. Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital, Brisbane
2017: October: World Scapes. Woolloongabba Art Gallery (WAG Upstairs)
2017: June: Finding Freedom. Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane
2017: June: Nundah Art Show. Nundah Community Centre
2016: November - December: The Ambience Store Project #009. New Farm, Brisbane
2015: December: HTTP://Re-productive. QCA Galleries, Southbank, Brisbane
2015: November: Showcase, QCA Graduation Exhibition, Brisbane. BA Fine Art Painting Major.
2014: January - February: Transfer. Showart Gallery, South Brisbane
2013: November: Zenith 150. SBIT (TAFE) Graduation Exhibition, Brisbane
ARTIST RESIDENCIES:
2021: Upcoming: May: Artist in Residence at Metro Arts' Ferryman Hut, Tenneriffe, Brisbane.
2020: August (postponed due to Covid): Artist in Residence at Hollufgård Art Residency (GAH), Denmark
2019: May - June: Artist in Residence at Hollufgård Art Residency (GAH), Denmark
2019: May - June: Artist Residence at Rural Residency for Contemporary Art (RUC), Northern Italy
2018: October: Artist in Residence & InterScape Showcase, House Conspiracy, Westend Brisbane
2017: Aug-Sep: Artist in Residence & Showcase, Hollufgård Art Residency (GAH), Denmark
PRIZES / MEDIA:
2020: Media: Exhibition essay https://culturalflanerie.com/2020/03/02/helle-cook-community-of-light/
2019: Women’s Work Exhibition & Prize, RQAS, Brisbane
2018/19: Collins Place Gallery Summer Salon, Melbourne. Art prize Finalist, exhibition Dec 2018-Feb 2019
2018: Artworld Landscape Prize, Brisbane: Finalist
2017: Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award, Brisbane: Online finalist
2017: Media: http://bneart.com/writing/helle-cook-notion-of-home-2/ - published essay (solo exhibition)
