Helen Gorrill

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DEICIDE preview

"Mutimedia Artist Helen Gorrill welcomed over a thousand spectators to the preview of her recent solo exhibition Deicide at DegreeArt's Execution Room. Taking a policitcal stand against the portrayal of women in art and religion, Gorrill's work has caused controversy, thought, and extreme inspiration."

Untitled (the Midonite women, Numbers 31)

Prosthetic limb installation
Prosthetic limbs, leather ankle cuffs, steel spreader-bar, chain

Available at LA GALERIE HORS-CHAMPS (PARIS) from 13 March to 15th April 2012

170cm x 200cm

Child of Numbers 31:18

Textile installation set in Perspex and steel frame on white floating shelf
Digitally printed cotton, free machine embroidery, hand-beading, bridal veil, dog-lead

embroidery
80cm x 60cm

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber installed at DEICIDE

Interactive mixed-media textile installation
Canvas and velvet stretched screens, digitally printed cotton, CAD embroidery, communion wafers, screen-printed organza, laser-etched priest shirt and bible, laser-cut screen, lamb skull, crucifixes, bible-wrapped and stitched secret confessions

220cm x 220cm

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber

Salome dancing for the head of St John, ii

Huge ink painting

Original
Ink on Paper
249cm x 141cm

Untitled 7 (Deconstruction of the Virgin)

"But I want you to understand...the head of a husband is his wife" (1 Corinthians 11:3)

Exhibited at DEICIDE in DegreeArt's Execution Room until 26th November (London)

Original
Ink on Paper
280cm x 115cm

Untitled 6 (Deconstruction of the Virgin)

“Let a man learn quietly with all submissiveness” Timothy 2:11-15

Exhibited at DEICIDE in DegreeArt's Execution Room until 26th November (London)

Original
Ink on Paper
265cm x 141cm

Untitled 4 (Deconstruction of the Virgin)

Biblical painting based on reversing the female submissiveness advocated by the bible, and in particular looking at the deconstruction and revival of the Virgin mary; one of a series of new work.

"Your desire shall be for your wife, and she will rule over you" (Genesis 3.16)

Exhibited at DEICIDE in DegreeArt's Execution Room until 26th November (London)

Original
Ink on Paper
239cm x 120cm

Salome with the head of St John

One of series of new work, based on the deconstruction and revival of the Virgin Mary. Based on 'Alone of all her sex' (Marina Walker) The attempt to rethink religion in the feminine and reveal ideas that have previously been repressed in traditional Christian imagery. Theorist Toril Moi stresses ‘there is...an urgent need for a ‘post-virginal’ discourse on maternity, one which ultimately would provide both women and men with a new ethics’.

Exhibited at DEICIDE in DegreeArt's Execution Room until 26th November (London)

Original
Ink on Paper
219cm x 107cm

Salome dancing for the head of St John, I

One of new series of biblical paintings based on reversing the female submissiveness advocated by the bible, including the deconstruction and revival of the Virgin mary.

Original
Ink on Paper
240cm x 115cm
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The assumption of Pope Pius IX iii

Available at LA GALERIE HORS-CHAMPS (PARIS) from 13 March to 15th April 2012

Open Edition
Ink on Paper
200cm x 120cm

The assumption of Pope Pius IX (i)

Available at LA GALERIE HORS-CHAMPS (PARIS) from 13 March to 15th April 2012

Ink on Paper

Child of Numbers 31:18

Textile installation set in Perspex and steel frame on white floating shelf
Digitally printed cotton, free machine embroidery, hand-beading, bridal veil, dog-lead

embroidery
80cm x 60cm

Would she make a good wife (studies)

Original
ink
100cm x 78cm

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber installed at DEICIDE

DEICIDE solo exhibition London 2011

Fushë Kosovë Sex Café Chair

Notes on artwork: Reclaimed prosthetic limbs, steel, leather, fishnet, nylon. Resins: male sex toys, Moldovan coins, children’s toys, sweets. Cushion: Machine and hand embroidered silk with beading, wire and leather straps.

Original
83cm x 93cm x 74cm
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“No longer a historic problem, up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are currently working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country to meet the booming demand for prostitutes.” (The Independent, July 2008)

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber (detail)

digital print, screen print, CAD embroidery
220cm x 220cm

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber (panel)

One of interior panels of Confession Chamber

digital print, screen print, CAD embroidery
220cm x 220cm

Benedict re-bound confession installation

exhibited at Salon Contemporary, 82 Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill London

Work installed at Salon Contemporary

82 Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill

St John the Baptist beheaded

sculptural transcription of Caravaggio painting.

Original
Clay, wire, MDF and resin
70cm x 150cm x 70cm
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Transcription of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's St John the Baptist beheaded, 1606

Exhibition installation

exhibition shot - for availability of Chair and paintings shown please contact.

Detail of Fushë Kosovë Sex Café Chair

Please contact for further information

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St John the Baptist, beheaded

Caravaggio transcription

Original
MDF, clay, wire, resin
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Benedict XVI Confession Chamber (detail of Pope confession)

Detail of laser-cut bible in form of confession.

Textile, other
220cm x 220cm

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber

Selling Olga

large ink painting

Original
Ink on Paper
220cm x 140cm

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber (detail)

laser cut priest vestment

Untitled (The Midonite women, Numbers 31)

Available at LA GALERIE HORS-CHAMPS (PARIS) from 13 March to 15th April 2012

Prosthetic limbs, stockings, chain and shackles

Moses Execution Throne (detail)

93 cm x 83 cm x 74 cm
(set on plinth 100 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm)

Prosthetic limbs, steel, leather, fishnet, hand embroidered and beaded silk cushion, CAD embroidered velvet panel, resin casts containing sweets, dolls and pocket pussies

See below
93cm x 83cm

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber (detail)

Public confessions received during exhibition

Benedict XVI Confession Chamber installed at DEICIDE

The Virgin (Isaiah 7:14)

One of a series of paintings based on the deconstruction and the revival of female biblical figures.

"Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and thou shalt call him Jesus"

Original
Ink on Paper
256cm x 114cm
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Untitled 8 (Deconstruction of the Virgin)

“Husbands, submit to your wives, as is fitting in the Lord (Colossans 3:18)

Original
Ink on Paper
276cm x 115cm

Untitled 3 (Deconstruction of the Virgin)

“Now as the Church submits to Christ, so all husbands should submit in everything to their wives” Ephesians 5:24

Biblical painting based on reversing the female submissiveness advocated by the bible, and in particular looking at the deconstruction and revival of the Virgin Mary; one of a series of new work

Exhibited at DEICIDE in DegreeArt's Execution Room until 26th November (London)

Original
Ink on Paper
259cm x 141cm

Untitled 5 (Deconstruction of the Virgin)

Currently exhibited Bond St, London (FineArte Urban Art Dealers)

Biblical painting based on reversing the female submissiveness advocated by the bible, and in particular looking at the deconstruction and revival of the Virgin Mary; one of a series of new work

Original
Ink on Paper
208cm x 115cm

Untitled 1 (deconstruction of the Virgin)

Biblical painting based on reversing the female submissiveness advocated by the bible, and in particular looking at the deconstruction and revival of the Virgin mary; one of a series of new work.

Exhibited at DEICIDE in DegreeArt's Execution Room until 26th November (London)

"The husband must respect his wife" (Ephesians 5:23)

Original
Ink on Paper
248cm x 120cm

Untitled 2 (deconstruction of the Virgin)

Biblical painting based on reversing the female submissiveness advocated by the bible, and in particular looking at the deconstruction and revival of the Virgin Mary; one of a series of new work.

"I do not permit a man to teach or exercise authority over a woman, rather, he is to remain quiet" (Timothy 2:12)

Original
Ink on Paper
235cm x 115cm