helle rask crawford
Mediums Used
Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, she is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as an anti-classical artist. Her sculptures are expressive, dynamic, sensual and humorous. They are full of movement, imagination and fabulising stories. Strong potent bulls, wonderfully vibrant horses, powerful ravens and lovesick swans characterize Helle Crawford as a sculptor. The expressive quality of her sculptures, that lets you sense the work of hands and fingers, the explosive, dynamic compositions, the sensuality and the imaginative content showcase Helle Crawford as a tradition conscious, yet thoroughly original artist. The work we have here is equally at home undercover and outside.
My works are mainly Magic Realism.
I also have a strong affinity to studies from life. Portraiture, the human figure and animals are frequently to emerge from the workshop.
Humour, balance, expression and movent are my guiding principles in striving to do emotive works
Sculptures by helle rask crawford
Credentials
Qualifications
Education
Sculpting: Keld Moseholm Jørgensen
Painting: Ulrik Hoff
Drawing: Eskil Hauchrog
The Danish Design School, Preliminary courseOther
Medical Degree: University of Copenhagen, USA and Australia
Italian Diploma: Erice, Italy, University of Copenhagen,Education
Sculpting: Keld Moseholm Jørgensen
Painting: Ulrik Hoff
Drawing: Eskil Hauchrog
The Danish Design School, Preliminary courseOther
Medical Degree: University of Copenhagen, USA and Australia
Italian Diploma: Erice, Italy, University of CopenhagenExhibitions
yes
Awards
2017 The Ottillie Helen McLaren Wallace price for a work by a female sculptor of any age, Royal Scottish Academy of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
1 of 12 winners in Society for Art of Imagination International Portrait Competition (Chosen to represent portraiture in the US by Society for Art of Imagination)
Publications
Imaginaire IV-X 2011-2018, ed. Claus Brusen, publisher: Fantasmus-Art
101 Artists 2010, ed. Tom Jørgensen, publisher: JA,Imaginaire IV-X 2011-2018, ed. Claus Brusen, publisher: Fantasmus-Art
101 Artists 2010, ed. Tom Jørgensen, publisher: JA
Memberships:
Society og Scottish Artists
Kunstrunden, Kongernes Nordsjælland
Society for Art of Imagination
artsConnect
International Sculpture Center
Danish Sculptor’s Guild
[KUN:ST] International
K2- Copenhagen artists
Art Circle, The Kings’ North Zealand
Surrealism
Magic Realism
Schiele
Klimt
Camille Claudel
"Beautiful and Manifest
The artist Helle Rask Crawford surrenders herself totally to the creative process.
The honest expression is born through the enchantment found in sculpting.
What emerges from the beautiful and manifest figurations is a form of personal responsibility. A dynamic act of balance in a concrete sculptural expression. The artist does not revere what is in vogue at the modern art scene. Her contract with the future is thus unpredictable, but meeting the works of the artist is very rewarding, because the ultimate freedom and pleasure in the work is so markedly prioritized. Inside and outside the domaine of the time. Controlled movement is the guiding force in the handling of clay, plaster and bronze. Superficiality is only skin-deep: A sensuous joy can be sensed flowing from the artist’s fingers in the sculpting of any surface."
Jørn Henrik Olsen, Art Critic
