Forthcoming show

Helen Baker's latest works use text to consider the structural props that inform the fabric of our society .
Baker's work has always been interested in visual forms that engage with production as it impacts on our perception of the world.
Her architectural block paintings are reminiscent of both Guston and Klee. Some appear to teeter on the edge of perspective, as if they are about to fall at any minute. Some offer the possibility of patched works, in both instances they are part of an ongoing interest in our relationship to the handmade and the industrial.

Helen Baker (also known as Helen Baker-Alder) was awarded the Rootstein Hopkins Sabbatical Award for Painting in 2006.

In 2007 she was awarded a British Academy Abbey Fellowship with a three month Painting Residency at the British School at Rome, looking at colour. During this time she was particularly interested in old mosaic forms.
 Helen works as Principal Lecturer in Fine Art with special responsibility for painting at the University of Northumbria, and leads the part-time MA Fine Art & Education programme in collaboration with the Baltic Education Team.

Helen became the first Director of Gallery North at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University, which opened 2008.

A recent limited publication of recent works and writing "In Colour" by Helen Baker has been published by the Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh and is available from Corn Exchange Gallery