Helen Lee Robinson is a Glasgow based visual artist, primarily working in miniature oil painting. She paints miniture scenes, objects and moments that create a sense of nostalgia and focus on the minutiae and drama of life. Her work aims to turn small moments easily missed or unnoticed, into detailed intricate paintings, romanticised or distorted like a dream or memory. Trinkets, food, snippets of scenery, interactions between friends all grow from their everyday nature into symbols punctuating suspended moments the viewer must peer into.

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Robinson graduated in painting from Glasgow School of Art in 2018 and has been part of numerous group and solo shows since 2018. She exhibited in The National Portrait Gallery as part of the BP Portrait Award in 2019, and appeared on Sky Portrait Artist of the Year in 2024. Helen is a part of the Glasgow based collective – G20 collective - comprising of 15 multimedia artists who work and exhibit together.

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Selected exhibitions:

 

BP Portrait Award Exhibition, 13th June - 20th October 2019, The National Portrait Gallery, London

 

Solo show - Helen Robinson – An Exhibition of Works, 25th January – 1st February 2019, Ilkley Arts Studio, The Manor House Courtyard, Ilkley, West Yorkshire

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Cass Art Face to Face 2019 Exhibition, 5th - 29th September 2019, The Space, Cass Art, Islington, London

 

'Non Linear' 4th - 6th March 2022 - Burdall Yard Arts Hub, Bath

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'Maximum Tilt' Winter exhibition, SaltSpace Cooperative, 270 High Street, Glasgow

 

Scottish Prize for Fine Art, The Glasgow Art Club, October 2023

 

Big Art Show, Paisley, September 2024

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'Tacky Fondue', SaltSpace Cooperative, 15th - 18th September 2024, The Axiom Building Glasgow

 

 

Contestant on Portrait Artist of the Year, Sky, November 2024

 

'1.5 Months' Experimental sound and music event - Old Hairdressers Glasgow, 18th August 2023

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'Six Empty Tables' 1st - 31st March 2024, Mono Cafe Glasgow

 

‘Yuck’ Exhibition with Andrew Sutherland, New Glasgow Society, 6 – 18th October 2023

 

‘A Stone, a Spark, a Shard of Glass, with G20 Artist Collective, Maryhill Burgh Halls, 14th October 2023 – 27th January 2024

 

‘Canal Conversations’ with G20 Artist Collective, Trongate 103 Glasgow, 5 – 30th September 2024

 

‘Queering Saltspace’ The Axion Building, Glasgow, 15th November 2024

 

Spring Equinox, Root Bound Collective, Sylvan Glasgow, 6th April 2025

 

‘Tenement Streets’ Art trail with G20 Artist Collective, 1st June 2025

 

‘Secrets and Layers’ With G20 Artist Collective, The Social Hub Glasgow, 6 – 21st June 2026

 

‘Living Lines and Shifting Forms’ N.Atelier Glasgow 12th June – 14th July 2025

 

‘It’ll all come out in the wash’ Saltspace Collective Albert Road Glasgow 17th September 2026

 

Paint and Mortar group show 12th September 2026, Scott Street Glasgow

 

The British Art Prize, Oxo Gallery Southbank, 21 – 25th October 2026

 

 

Publication - Easel Words for 'The Jackdaw' - September/October issue 2020