Helen Elizabeth Kuumbi |Artist| Cornwall
Archive
Collections and Projects:
Echoes (2021-2023)
Traces of heritage and the industrial past on the Devon and Cornwall landscape, culminating in joint show with Rosie French at Garrison Gallery
See Closer
Oil studies of the sea surface and moody seascapes (2023 onwards)
Mountains are beautiful (2019)
A series inspired by a solo road trip across the alps and exhibited at The Cells, Plymouth
15x15 (2020)
The output of a lockdown painting challenge, a set of small format oil paintings painted daily
Home Brew
Landscape paintings, acrylic, Devon and Cornwall (2018-2020)
Butterfly in the storm
Exploring notions of sublime in a group exhibition 'Horror and Harmony' with Plymouth Art collective U1
Exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions
2019 Mountains are Beautiful The Cells, Plymouth
Group exhibitions
2025 Maker Artist Collective, Room 1, Maker
2024 Summer Exhibition, Drawn to the Valley, Tavistock
2024 Rame Art Show, Congregation Hall, Kingsand
2022 Echoes in the landscape joint show with Rosie French, Garrison Gallery, Maker
2022 Havow Garrison Gallery , Maker
2022 Christmas Show, Awenek Studio, Maker
2022 Rame art show, Congregation hall, Kingsand
2021 Artist of Maker past and present Garrison Gallery, Maker
2020 Little things Awenek Studio, Millbrook
2019 Moorii Ocean Studios, Plymouth
2019 Summer Exhibiton, Old Ship, Cawsand,
2018 Maker art collective , Barrack Block, Maker
2018 Plymouth Art Weekender, Studio 201, PCAS, Plymouth
2018 Moorland, White thorn, Shuagh prior
2018 Coastlines, Victoria Sewert, Plymouth
2017 Summer exhibition The Gallery, Maker Heights
2012 Nomadic Traces, Pipe Gallery, Plymouth
2012 Spaces ,Pipe gallery, Plymouth Barbican
2012 Horror and Harmony Plymouth art centre, Plymouth
2011 Party for your Eyes Broadmead Shopping Centre, Bristol
Performance, installation and socially engaged practice
2017-2023: St Germans May Tree Fair: workshop leader for procession sculptures.
2013 A trip to the moon Puppet theatre, Port Eliot Festival, St Germans: lead creator, performer
2012 Splinter Plymouth arts centre, installation and community workshops
2012 Nomadic Traces, BAS 7 fringe, Plymouth: performance artist, workshop leader
2012 Transition Spaces, Plymouth City centre Shops: installation in empty shop windows
2012 Roodwah, Maker festival, Maker: immersive outdoor installation

