Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK (b. 1985)

Helen Marten

A Starling Orbit (real facts, real fiction), 2021

Nylon-based ink on fabric, aluminum, ash frame, steel, maple, fabric, zippers, cross- stitch embroidery, cast Jesmonite, painted balsa wood, cast pewter, marbles, cotton, bitumen paper, ballpoint pen, beads, paper bag, chamois leather, milk- bottle tops, black sand, and steel rebar
© Helen Marten; courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo by Eva Herzog.

Helen Marten with her work at The Hepworth Wakefield gallery in West Yorkshire. Photo by Anthony Devlin/PA.

“I make things involving processes or images that I find arousing or interesting – and I hope there is a little of that for an uninitiated audience, so you can see why something has been made in a particular way, or be offered a reminiscence of a particular colour that harks back to something you might recognise.”

—Helen Marten