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“Salvage has come together with the sort of great leaps only an artist with a lifetime sculpting experience can conjure. It is in many ways Helen Denerley’s Everest, a peak, in her output and at a time when most see the fragility in the natural world around us. Many also feel an affinity with the creatures she sculpts and we share the Earth with: the butterflies and pollinators that Denerley forms from discarded bicycle parts, springs and the now jewel-like screwdriver blades, the gentle grazing goats made from plough shares, a graceful flying red kite magicked from discarded scythe blades and small birds from old spoons. Here is a resurrection rising from things we throw away too quickly.”

Tony Davidson, Gallery Director

All work in this exhibition can be seen online, but we very much hope you are able to step under the giant spider and into the menagerie she has created here in Kilmorack Gallery.

link to work

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help. A catalogue is available.

HELEN DENERLY | Salvage | catalogue

We have produced a publication to celebrate the power of Helen Denerley’s incredible works and what can be salvaged and reborn from a scrap pile. Hopefully, it will allow the sculpture gathered for this exhibition to remain together, at least on paper, for longer than the month of August 2023.

Please contact the gallery for more information.

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Here’s one I made earlier… https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/10/22/might-as-well-live/

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