‎Smith, Laura‎
‎Helen Chadwick‎

‎Helen Chadwick. Life Pleasures.‎

‎Smith, Laura: Helen Chadwick. Life Pleasures. 2025. 272 pages, illustrated in colour and in black & white. Hardback. 25 x 18cms. The first critical biography on Helen Chadwick. 6 chapters discuss themes addressed in Chadwick's sculpture, performance and photography, such as mortality, desire, and fetishism, her use of unorthodox materials like raw meat, flowers, bodily fluids and chocolate, and her influence on other artists. Including conversations with art critic Louisa Buck, and Chadwick's husband David Notarius.‎

‎The first critical biography on Helen Chadwick. 6 chapters discuss themes addressed in Chadwick's sculpture, performance and photography, such as mortality, desire, and fetishism, her use of unorthodox materials like raw meat, flowers, bodily fluids and chocolate, and her influence on other artists. Including conversations with art critic Louisa Buck, and Chadwick's husband David Notarius‎

‎Helen Chadwick‎

‎Helen Chadwick. Exhibition: London, Barbican Art Gallery and Manchester, City Art Gallery, 2004. 166 pages. Soft covers. 26 x 22cms.‎

‎Helen Chadwick.‎

‎London, Barbican Art Gallery, 2004 Paperback with flaps, 22.2 x 26.1 cm. 168 p. with 84 (73 col.) ills. Bibliography and Chronology. Text in English language. ISBN 9783775713931.‎

‎Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) is one of the eminent british artists of the 1980s and 90s. In 1987 she was nominated for the Turner Prize. In 1994 the London Serpentine Gallery held a high regarded exhibition of her work. In 1996 Chadwick died unforeseen at the height of her career. Desire is a recurring theme in her works. A lot of her works show her own naked body or were created with the use of extreme sensual material. The artist described the feelings that are evoked by her work as ?wonderfully gross, funny by choice, dangerously beautiful?. This monography is the first survey of the artist's body of work. It contains a number of her famous photographs, sculptures and installations, such as Viral Landscapes (1989-1991), some photographic works, in which Chadwick inserted her own body cells, Piss Flowers (1991/92), casts taken from holes that were left in snow after urination, as well as Cacao a fountain that excretes hot chocolate.‎

‎Effluvia : Helen Chadwick,‎

‎, Artist, 1994 Illustrated stiff wrappers, 235 x 295mm., 72pp., color illustration throughout. ISBN 9781870814768.‎

‎Museum Folkwang, Essen/ Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona/ Serpentine Gallery, London. Bilingual edition German/ English.‎