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Helen G Blake

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Visual artist Represented by Molesworth Gallery, Dublin | Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast Free 🇵🇸 https://www.helengblake.com/

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Sep 15

I'm really thrilled about this beautiful review by @tomlordan.bsky.social of my exhibition in today's Irish Times. Thank you.
The review will appear in the print edition on Wednesday.

'Let the rules be soft' continues at The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin until 30 September.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · Sep 15

Latest @irishtimes.com review is centred on the @helengblake.bsky.social beautiful exhibition Let The Rules Be Soft.

I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

Helen Blake: Let the Rules Be Soft review – An absorbing, unmissable exhibition

Visual art: At the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin, Helen Blake’s immediately recognisable paintings are profoundly compelling

www.irishtimes.com

Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · 6d

A new iteration of Vice Versa, curated by Johanna Melvin, will be part of The Errant Collaborators (a play within a play), opening 23 October at MIRROR.
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
PLYMOUTH PL4 8AT
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A total of 102 artists in multiple projects.

Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · 16d

Starry night

Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations Cristín!

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted that my painting ‘In a hall of mirrors’ will be showing in the second iteration of ‘Vice Versa’ at MIRROR Gallery, Arts University Plymouth 24 October - 17 December.

Part of ‘The Errant Collaborators’, several projects/exhibitions brought together by Dan Howard-Birt.

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 20d

New podcast. Remembering the legendary and irreplaceable Manchán Magan who died last week. And revisiting our first chat where he told me his life story. ❤️

open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...

In memory of Manchán Magan

open.spotify.com

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KokasHouse @kokashouse.bsky.social · 27d

One chapter in, and I am going to have to also purchase this in E-reader format to annotate. I've been reading 2-3 books a month for 40+ years, and this will be the 2nd book I've ever made notes on. Beautiful writing with sharp edges; a sledgehammer to western hegemony & liberal ideology

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Chester Beatty @chesterbeatty.bsky.social · 27d

Exhibition Opening Soon! ✨📚

Manuscripts & the Mind: How we read & respond to the written word opens on 24 Oct!
👉🏻 chesterbeatty.ie/exhibitions/...

#LoveDublin
#ChesterBeatty
#ManuscriptsandtheMind

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · 29d

'Hiccups', oil on linen, 30 x 24cm.

Tues 30 Sept is the final day of my show, 'Let the rules be soft' at The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin. Thanks to Gallery Director Ronan Lyons, and thanks everyone who has been to see the show.
molesworthgallery.com/exhibitions/...

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Sep 24

'Self and yourself', oil on linen, 30 x 24cm.

From my exhibition 'Let the rules be soft', which continues at The Molesworth Gallery until 30 September.
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For more information and to view works online, see:
molesworthgallery.com/exhibitions/...

#helenblake
#molesworthgallery
#dublingalleries

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 18

This beautiful object is a fragment from the base of a 13th-century Syrian bowl.

It is decorated with a hare in an ‘arrested’ stance, that is with one of their front paws raised, and their head turned to the rear. Their two back legs are usually unnaturally lengthened.

EA1978.2398

A round cream coloured fragment of fritware with a black stylised hare in the centre

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Sep 15

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · Sep 15

Helen Blake: Let the Rules Be Soft review – An absorbing, unmissable exhibition

Visual art: At the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin, Helen Blake’s immediately recognisable paintings are profoundly compelling

www.irishtimes.com

Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lockdown project still keeping going… 🎉😅

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Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · Sep 6

I visited the opening of @helengblake.bsky.social 's phenomenal Let The Rules Be Soft at the #Molesworth Gallery during the week. Exquisite, visually inventive, phenomenologically rich abstract painting. Really looking forward to writing my review - so much to grapple with!

#helenblake

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Sep 2

My exhibition 'Let the rules be soft' opens this week at The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin; showing from 4 - 30 September 2025.
Image: 'In the atom and the ether, oil on linen, 100 x 125cm

molesworthgallery.com/exhibitions/...

#molesworthgallery
#dublingalleries

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Visual Artists Ireland @visualartistsirl.bsky.social · Aug 29

Let The Rules Be Soft | Helen Blake at Molesworth Gallery
Helen Blake is a painter whose practice focuses on colour, engaging with rhythm and formalism, chance and deliberation.
visualartists.ie/events/let-t...

Let The Rules Be Soft | Helen Blake at Molesworth Gallery

Helen Blake is a painter whose practice focuses on colour, engaging with rhythm and formalism, chance and deliberation. Using a working method where process and

visualartists.ie

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Aug 5

'Three kinds of time' continues. By appointment.

“Three kinds of time”
Solo show by Helen Blake
21 June – 16 August 2025

The Cash Shop, Bridge St., Gort, Co. Galway, H91VH21
...
The Cash Shop is a long term project by conceptual artist, organiser, and curator, Jim Ricks.
jimricks.info/thecashshop/

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RHA Gallery @rha-arts.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just FOUR days remaining to view the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends this Sunday.

View the exhibition online at rhagallery.ie

#RHAAnnual #RHAAnnualExhibition #RHA195 #GoFurther #McCannFitzGerald #AlwaysFreeAdmission

Just FOUR days remaining to view the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends this Sunday. A photograph of people chatting and looking at art in the Dr. Tony Ryan room of the RHA. Photography - Ros Kavanagh.

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NoThanks Boycott App @nothanksapp.bsky.social · Jul 29

aption: 🚨Boycott Pepsi!

The newest reports of Q2 2025 are in!
And they don’t look good for Pepsi

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Jul 26

Who is going to stop this monstrous suffering, which is being inflicted before our eyes on an entire population?

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · Jul 25

I HATE AI prompts in word. How the fuck is it good to encourage people to outsource thinking about things that should be sweet & nourishing. "Write a funny poem to wish a happy birthday to my 5 year old sister" It's literally discouraging people from creative & meaningful & life-affirming stuff

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Jul 25

Not long left to see the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition; final day Sunday 3 August. Delighted my painting is included.

‘Drift’, 2023, oil on linen, 50 x 60cm.
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The 195th RHA Annual Exhibition
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts
15 Ely Place
Dublin D02 A213
@rha-arts.bsky.social
#RHAAnnual
#RHA195

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Jul 22

Statement by President Higgins on death of those seeking aid in Gaza.

Read the full statement on president.ie

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RHA Gallery @rha-arts.bsky.social · Jul 21

We’re closed today but don’t forget that you can view and purchase art from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition at rhagallery.ie.

The 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald showcases photography, painting, print, mixed media, drawing, architectural models, and sculpture.

A view of the RHA Atrium during the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Photograph - Ros Kavanagh.

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Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Jul 19

For the past two years I've been making work for my fifth solo exhibition at Molesworth Gallery, which will open in September.

In the meantime, here's a painting from my previous show there in 2023:

'Mid-century side-step', oil on linen, 24 x 30cm
#helenblake
#contemporarypainting
#dublingalleries

Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social · Jul 12

Cold Comfort, 2016, oil on linen, 45 x 36cm
from “Three kinds of time”
Solo show by Helen Blake
21 June – 16 August 2025
The Cash Shop, Bridge St., Gort, Co. Galway, H91VH21
...
The Cash Shop is a long term project by conceptual artist, organiser, and curator, Jim Ricks.
jimricks.info/thecashshop/