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Helen Clara Hemsley

Published: 11.11.2024

Bio

Helen Clara Hemsley is an artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark, born in Durban, South Africa. With a BA on Fine Art Sculpture - Glasgow School of Art, and studies in jewellery, has a solid career on the field. Helen is inspired by the every day and the familiar and her work is about passion, love and curiosity.

Statement

I am inspired by the every day and the familiar. My jewellery celebrates my life and observations, my love of words and sayings, and my incurable need to process and understand the world around me. My work is often funny, a bit silly and light, but with a twist of critical observation. I tell stories that are essentially mine, but with a hope that they can also touch others, bring a smile to their faces and get them thinking. My work is about passion, love and curiosity and it mirrors my desire for answers to endless questions.
 

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2025:
Fair  12 Mar 2025 - 16 Mar 2025  SCHMUCK münchen 2025.
2024:
2023:
Exhibition  05 Jul 2023 - 13 Aug 2023  With a Golden Frame.
Exhibition  08 Mar 2023 - 12 Mar 2023  Tinsel Gallery at Frame 2023.
2022:
Exhibition  14 Sep 2022 - 05 Oct 2022  Can you hear me? Exhibition at Galeria FAB.
Exhibition  12 Aug 2022 - 01 Sep 2022  Up and Down in Johannesburg.
Exhibition  18 Mar 2022 - 07 Apr 2022  Up and Down.
Exhibition  14 Jan 2022 - 26 Feb 2022  Traces in Time by Helen Clara Hemsley and Therese Mørch.
2021:
Exhibition  28 Oct 2021 - 13 Nov 2021  From Collect in Denmark.
Exhibition  03 Sep 2021 - 18 Sep 2021  Echoes of a Meal in Copenhagen.
Exhibition  11 Jun 2021 - 11 Jul 2021  GALLERY: A Window Exhibition at Knaekkethvid.
Exhibition  05 Jun 2021 - 24 Oct 2021  The Biennale for Craft & Design 2021.
Exhibition  13 Mar 2021 - 01 Aug 2021  Danish Jewellery Box, Contemporary Jewellery Design.
Exhibition  10 Mar 2021 - 17 Apr 2021  DLUG - DLOG.
2020:
Exhibition  11 Nov 2020 - 05 Dec 2020  Show Us Your 'Rona.
Exhibition  14 May 2020 - 06 Jun 2020  BEIGE.
Exhibition  25 Mar 2020 - 26 Apr 2020  From Collect.
Meeting  14 Mar 2020 - 14 Mar 2020  CANCELED / Works & Days Seminar.
Exhibition  10 Mar 2020 - 14 Jun 2020  Works and Days. In dialogue across time and space.
2019:
Meeting  27 Sep 2019 - 26 Oct 2019  The City of Jewellery 2019.
Exhibition  27 Sep 2019 - 19 Oct 2019  Daisy Daisy Daisy.
Exhibition  26 Sep 2019 - 12 Oct 2019  Echoes of an Echo in Copenhagen.
Exhibition  14 Mar 2019 - 16 Mar 2019  Echoes of an Echo.
2018:
Exhibition  05 Oct 2018 - 28 Feb 2019  Japan Retur.
2017:
Exhibition  04 Nov 2017 - 21 Jan 2018  Bring It On. Danish Contemporary Jewellery.
Meeting  25 Sep 2017 - 30 Nov 2017  Parcours Bijoux 2017.
Exhibition  01 Sep 2017 - 09 Sep 2017  MIMOOL in South Korea.
Exhibition  24 Aug 2017 - 28 Aug 2017  MIMOOL in Japan.
Exhibition  10 Aug 2017 - 18 Aug 2017  MIMOOL.
Exhibition  31 Mar 2017 - 16 Apr 2017  Connected. Part 3.
Exhibition  10 Mar 2017 - 12 Mar 2017  Connected. Part 2.
Exhibition  20 Jan 2017 - 05 Feb 2017  Connected. Part 1.
2016:
Exhibition  05 Nov 2016 - 12 Nov 2016  Boiling Pot.
Exhibition  09 Sep 2016 - 02 Oct 2016  Time Flies by Helen Clara Hemsley.
Exhibition  23 Jan 2016 - 29 Jan 2016  With you Without you by Helen Clara Hemsley and Hrafnhildur Halldorsdottir.
2015:
Exhibition  13 Oct 2015 - 22 Nov 2015  The Danish Jewellery Box at Seoul.
2011:
Exhibition  23 Sep 2011 - 15 Oct 2011  Helen Clara Hemsley: I never played tennis.

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Magazine:  Det unikke danske smykke catalogue. 2013
Catalogue:  Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk & Design. 2009
Magazine:  GO-CARD. Copenhagen,  2009
Single sock solution postcard
Magazine:  GO-CARD. Copenhagen,  2001
5 postcard designs
Magazine:  Current Obsession Magazine #2. Sarah Mesritz and Marina Elenskaya:  Eindhoven, 
Book:  Humor in Craft. Martin, BrigitteSchiffer Publishing, Ltd:  Pennsylvania,