Helen Marten
Helen Marten review – Turner winner’s new show leaves you gasping
This is an exhibition teeming with sex, philosophy and the fragments of catastrophe – from multilayered abstract paintings to an embossed bar of soap
Adrian Searle
03, Sep, 2021 @1:55 PM
Frieze London 2019 review – gags, tapestry and hardcore ceramic panda sex
Regent’s Park, London
Dazzling colour radiates throughout the art fair this year, along with the scent of ayahuasca ceremonies and satirical pokes at the pretension – and aggressive fringes – of the art world
Dazzling colour radiates throughout the art fair this year, along with the scent of ayahuasca ceremonies and satirical pokes at the pretension – and aggressive fringes – of the art world
Hettie Judah
03, Oct, 2019 @1:15 PM
Take that, Charlie Brown! The artists putting the pain into Peanuts
Anxiety, misery, vanity, heartbreak … Snoopy and the gang were always darker than they appeared – which is why artists have reimagined them for our angst-ridden times
Stuart Jeffries
23, Oct, 2018 @12:54 PM
Hepworth Wakefield uses £100,000 prize to buy Helen Marten sculpture
Remainder of the prize money will be used to turn a nearby patch of land into one of the UK’s largest public gardens
Dale Berning Sawa
05, Jul, 2018 @2:08 PM
The Guardian view on contemporary art in schools: a joyful idea reborn | Editorial
Editorial: In the 1940s, School Prints were a visionary notion to bring affordable, adventurous artworks into classrooms. Reinvented for the 21st century, they still are today
Editorial
14, Jan, 2018 @1:42 PM
More than 150 write letter denouncing sexual harassment in art world
Letter signed by 2,000 gallerists, artists, curators and administrators comes after allegations against Artforum co-publisher
Nicola Slawson
30, Oct, 2017 @12:02 AM
The Guardian view on Brexit and the arts: a backlash against the modern | Editorial
Editorial: The right wants to believe that contemporary art is a liberal-elite conspiracy. Five million visitors to Tate Modern will tell you different
Editorial
28, Dec, 2016 @6:35 PM
Helen Marten: the Turner prize winner who took the art world to task
After a year of extraordinary success, Marten has vowed to share her winnings and chastised the industry for its privilege
Hannah Ellis-Petersen
09, Dec, 2016 @5:57 PM
Michael Gove's anti-Turner prize tweets are childish
The former education secretary has dubbed the work of Turner prize winner Helen Marten ‘modish crap’ – and championed his own blinkered version of post-Brexit art history
Charlotte Higgins
06, Dec, 2016 @6:01 PM
Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second big award in a month
Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
06, Dec, 2016 @11:02 AM
Helen Marten: an artist who thinks differently from the rest of us
Marten’s playful and inventive way with language and things won the Turner Prize over Andrea Hamilton’s bottom, while Michael Dean’s installation was a pile-up of too many elements
Adrian Searle
05, Dec, 2016 @9:49 PM
Laura Cumming: best art of 2016
Portraits woke up, the tiny Goldfinch flew in, the Switch House switched on, and junk art triumphed
Laura Cumming
04, Dec, 2016 @7:00 AM
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