Taking the striking landscape of the north Highlands as her starting point, Helen Moore’s work addresses themes of how rural space is used in the modern day, and the impact that humans make in the environment.
Helen includes everyday objects in the forefront of the landscape of her paintings. These touches provide the human aspect of living in a rural community.
As an artist she is drawn to the fine details of unremarkable objects; textures of the corroding materials of industry, plastic wrapped around fences, the remnants of old paint next to new, scattered wheelie bins and worn markings in empty carparks. These leftovers of everyday life create a narrative within the work, evidencing local industry both present and past, documenting day to day movement and activity in the landscape.
Originally from Yorkshire, where she trained at Bradford College of Art, Helen Moore has lived in the far north of Scotland for 17 years, and her landscape painting combines the mix of urban and rural that reflects this.
BIO
Helen Moore graduated from Bradford Art College with a BA Hons in Fine Art in 2003. Helen moved from her home near Bradford in West Yorkshire to Caithness in the North Highlands in 2007 where she has worked as a freelance visual artist since 2008.
Helen has also worked for various arts organisations in the Highlands for many years in roles including Exhibition Organiser and most recently Education and Outreach Coordinator at Lyth Arts Centre.
Helen has received awards such as the People’s Choice Award at Northlands Creative in 2019 and the Upright Gallery Award at the Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition in 2021 which resulted in her solo exhibition at the Upright Gallery in Edinburgh in August 2022.
Education
2000-2003 Bradford College of Art and Design – BA Hons-Fine Art
1999-2000 Bradford College of Art and Design – Foundations Studies in Art and Design
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2022 – While I was waiting.. – The Upright Gallery, Bruntsfield, Edinburgh
2019 - The End of the Road – Crate Brewery, Hackney Wick, London
2018 – Peoples Choice Winner Exhibition – Northlands Creative, Lybster, Scotland
Group Exhibitions
2026 – group show, TATHA Gallery, Newport on Tay
2026 – SHED, Tin Shed Gallery, Isle of Mull
2025 – Dunnet Open studios
2025 – SSA LAND exhibition, Dick institute Kilmarnock
2024 – Brush and beyond, summer show, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 – Sea-saw – Group touring exhibition, Brighton Fishing Quarter
2024 – Sea-saw – Group show with Patrick O’Donnell, June Frickleton, Jame Campling, Nairn Arts
2024 – SSA Annual Exhibition RSA
2023 – RSA Annual Exhibition, RSA Edinburgh
2022 – VAS North – Wasps Studios Inverness
2022 – VAS Annual exhibition – online
2021 – Society of Women Artists – members exhibition - online
2021 – SSA Annual Exhibition RSA
2021 – RSA Annual Exhibition - online
2021 – SSA – Tides Changing/Changing Tides – selected group exhibition
2020 - RSA Annual Exhibition – Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2020 – Laundry Gallery , Aviemore
2020 – Summer Exhibition – Tolquhon Gallery. Aberdeenshire.
2019/20 – Selected group exhibition at Rock Rose Gin Distillery – Dunnet, Caithness
2019 – Journeys – Thurso Art Gallery
2018/19 – Scottish Society of Artists 121st Annual Exhibition – Royal Scottish Academy
2018/19 – Winter Exhibition – Moray Arts Centre
2018/19 – Winter Exhibition – Northlands Creative
2018 – 30 x 30 – Caithness Horizons