Helena Cardow
www.helenacardow.com
Helena Cardow is a twenty-three-year-old Londoner with a penchant for oil paints, leopard print and anything ginger-flavoured. She read MA Visual Arts and Culture, and BA Sociology at Durham University, and is currently experimenting with her personal practice.
Her work is multimedia-based, ranging from collage, photography, oil painting to graphic design. As a self-taught artist, Helena explores new mediums readily, constantly seeking novel modes of self-expression. Her art explores both the personal, as well as intersectional sociological issues, such as race, feminism, gender, and sexuality.
Her ongoing volume of line works, the Graphic series explores the traditional motif of the female nude in contemporary art. It's a countering of the male gaze, the woman looking back at the viewer. It's a rebuff of the conflicted way women's bodies are viewed in society, as something both sexualized and censored. It challenges people's notions of the 'acceptable', of the 'obscene', of the 'ladylike'.
