Helen Shaddock is a Glasgow based visual artist who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2008 with a First class Honours Degree in Fine Art:Environmental Art. Shaddock has been involved in exhibitions nationally and internationally, and her work is in a number of public and private collections. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition of new work at Here Gallery, Bristol in June 2011, and forthcoming exhibitions include a solo exhibition in one of the Briggait Project Spaces, Glasgow in October.

My work stems from a fascination and visual attraction to organised information, colour, repeated patterns and imagery of stripes/strata both man made and natural ranging from bar codes to rock strata. Working with a range of media and within pictorial and sculptural conventions, I engage the viewer both visually and experientially. Drawing is fundamental to my way of working, and process is an important part of my work, often introducing a durational aspect. Order and chaos constantly challenge each other, and despite an obsessive attention to structure, detail and process, unpredicted outcomes come together.

In a recent essay about my work, Sam Ainsley describes my work as “exuberant and life enhancing; it allows us (the viewers) to re-experience the pleasures of colour, texture and form which have shaped our experience of the world from our childhood years; all human beings seem to respond to the seduction of these. Helen Shaddock's work asserts the importance of the hand of the artist, both in drawing and making; it is wholly life-affirming and allows us to remember and share in the individual human being's response to the world with a sense of joy and wonder.”

Sam Ainsley, Former Head of Master of Fine Art progamme at The Glasgow School of Art, currently, Researcher in Residence (part of AHM, Ainsley, Harding Moffat) at Glasgow Sculpture Studios.