Helen Marten
Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Art Medium
Drawing
Mixed Media
Sculpture
Art Style
Found Objects
Installation
Sketching
About the Artist
Helen Marten is a highly acclaimed British artist, recognized for her deeply intellectual and meticulously crafted sculptural installations. Awarded the Turner Prize in 2016, Marten's practice involves the painstaking arrangement of diverse, often disparate, found and fabricated objects into complex and evocative compositions. Her art is characterized by its playful interrogation of material properties, linguistic meaning, and cultural symbolism, transforming the mundane into something profound and enigmatic. Marten invites viewers to decode her intricate visual narratives, which often blend humor with philosophical inquiry, reflecting on how we organize and understand the world around us through touch, sight, and language.