RHODES is excited to introduce London based abstract painter Helen Bermingham.
Helen Bermingham’s paintings explore the relationship between memory, time and material gesture. Working through a process of repetition and transformation, Bermingham traces the evolution of marks across her practice, treating each brushstroke as part of an ongoing visual archive.
Beginning with digital collages created from details of previous works, Bermingham uses these fragments as the foundations for new paintings. Through layers of application, erasure and revision, familiar forms are repeated and altered, creating compositions in which past and present exist simultaneously. This process creates a sense of movement and accumulation, where each painting becomes connected to those that came before it.
Balancing intuition with careful observation, Bermingham’s works blur the boundaries between recollection, invention and abstraction. Her richly layered surfaces invite viewers into shifting environments where meaning is continually formed, transformed and rediscovered.
Bermingham will make her RHODES debut this August as part of our Summer Group Exhibition 11:11. Be sure to register your interest to be the first to receive a catalogue of available works.
Artist Bio
Helen Bermingham holds an MA in Painting from The Royal College of Art and a BA in History of Art and Drama from Trinity College Dublin. She has exhibited throughout the UK, USA and Europe, including at The Cabin and The Bunker LA, Luca Tommasi Arte Milan and GR Gallery New York. Bermingham is a recipient of the Ali Alkazzi Scholarship Award at The Royal College of Art and recently completed an artist residency at The La Brea Studio Artist Residency in Los Angeles. She won the staff prize for the Dentons Art Prize in 2019 and was shortlisted for Anthology 2017 at Charlie Smith London. Her works are held in private collections across the UK, Europe, Asia and the USA.
