Helene Eliot was born and raised in Paris where she studied art and architecture. She moved to London in her thirties to pursue a Franco-British career as an architect, furniture designer and art advisor for private clients. In 2013 Helene moved to Berlin to open an artist studio, presenting cultural and literary events; and subsequently developing her own art production.
Helene Eliot's work ranges from abstract to figurative artworks and collages, including her
"Small World Big World" mini-installation artworks that are made from found artefacts combined to create poetic and thought provoking statements; and her signature "Running Painting" artworks which question the typical relationship and coexistence between a medium and its background, allow the paint to have an existence of its own, freed from the canvas.
Her figurative work uses personal elements belonging to the people depicted, as a way of "constructing" the image. Those "Pop" works often involve collages. “After Dad” is made of height hundred pieces taken from her father's garden encyclopaedia; whereas: “I can not be in the present anymore” includes big dots that are collages of reproductions of her son's artworks. In her abstract works Helene often engages more physically, her movements guiding the mediums whose layers tell us a story.
Her latest abstract series, "Opening Night", presented in two consecutive exhibitions in Berlin calls into question the power of attraction of light and colour emanating from absolute darkness.
Helene Eliot's work depicts the physical and mental limitations people face as well as children's ability to wander through various dimensions. This she illustrates with a juxtaposition of imaginary and real worlds, that create a poetic space which allows us to reflect on the meaning and the concept of time.
Helene Eliot is currently working in London where she moved back to.
RÉSUMÉ
- Art Academy Roederer Paris
- Academy de la Grande Chaumière Paris
- Architecture Studies at the Superior School of the Beaux-Arts Paris
- Graduated as an Architect DPLG
- Chelsea Collage of Art evening course London
- Studio Visit Exhibition /window installation Berlin. 2015.
- Presentation of literary and art events Berlin. 2016-2018.
- Solo shows at With-0ut Berlin :
2016 The family
2017 Paris-Berlin
2018 Child-W-ood
2019 Arty-Party
- 2021 Contemporary Venice Exhibition
2022 With-Out Berlin "Opening Night" series 1
2023 With-Out Berlin "Opening Night" series 2
