About the edition
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This work contains a line from Mary Brooksbank's poem Solitude and was inspired by Helen Cammock's introduction to both Dundee and to Brooksbank's poetry during her residency at DCA Print Studio to create work for the exhibition Soft Impressions.
Soft Impressions was a major cross-generational exhibition which included new and existing print work from Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor. The exhibition engaged with printmaking’s role in the historic distribution of ideas about race and depictions of otherness, and its use as a tool for both political activism and propaganda.
Cammock's contribution to Soft Impressions explored notions of labour and resistance. Activist, poet and songwriter Mary Brooksbank inspired four works in the show, including the large scale mural Solitude, 2024, which this screenprint is a re-imagining of.
This is a work about walking the streets - absorbing the architecture and colours that shifted and changed over Cammock's time on residency. It speaks to the beauty of the solitude she experienced walking in an unknown place with unfamiliar streets, communities and light.
In the silence of night
when quietness surrounds me
beneath the pale moons austere light
sweet solitude I found thee
Solitude, Mary Brooksbank
| Year | 2025 |
| Edition of | 30 |
| Media | Screenprint on Somerset Velvet |
| Dimensions | 31 x 42cm |
| Signature | Signed and numbered by the artist verso |
About Helen Cammock
Helen Cammock was born in Staffordshire, and is now based between London and Wales. She works across film, photography, print, text, song and performance, examining mainstream historical and contemporary narratives about Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability.
In 2023, Cammock received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists. In 2019, she was the joint recipient of The Turner Prize, and in 2017 won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. In May 2024, Cammock’s public art commission On Wind Tides (2024) launched on The Line, London.
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