Helen Cammock T-Shirt pre-order

VASW are raising funds for our work through a series of limited edition t-shirts designed by amazing artists who live, work in, or have a strong connection to the region. 

T-Shirts are made from 100% carded cotton, they are regular fit with a mid weight of 200 GSM. T-Shirts are Amfori certified, supporting environmental and human rights due diligence in supply chains.

Helen Cammock T-Shirt:
Back printed T-Shirt in Ecru
Cost £35 plus £5 p&p
Edition of 100

Pre order now for delivery in December.  

Beneath the Surface of Skin (2025)
This text considers the politicisation of skin - our personal experience of our own skin and how it is read, understood, misunderstood, vilified and so on. It asks us to consider it as permeable barrier between our internal and external worlds - and its role as protection. It is the membrane that contains our physical forms and our emotional landscapes. It is used to control and manipulate when weaponised by those interested in power. But it is for us and only us to allow another under the surface of our skin.

About Helen
Helen Cammock lives and works in North Wales and London. Her interdisciplinary practice spans film, photography, print, text, song and performance, and engages with historical and contemporary narratives around Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability. Moving fluidly across time and geography, her works often layer multiple voices and perspectives to explore the cyclical nature of history through poetic, visual and aural assemblage. She was awarded the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2017 and was a joint recipient of the Turner Prize in 2019.

Cammock has exhibited and performed worldwide with recent solo shows including Pelicans Dive at Half Light, Kate MacGarry, London, UK (2025), Bass Notes and SiteLines, Amant, Brooklyn, USA (2023), Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, and UNO Gallery, New Orleans USA (2023), They Call it Idlewild, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada (2023), behind the eye is the promise of rain, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hannover, Germany (2022), Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2021), Beneath the Surface of Skin, STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021), They Call It Idlewild, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK (2020), Che Si Può Fare (What Can be Done), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2019), Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019) and The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019); VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland (2018). 

Recent group shows include Artists First: Contemporary Perspectives on Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, London (2025), Post-Print Triennial, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China (2025), The Sleepers, The Women's Art Collection, Cambridge (2025), Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 - 2025, The ICA, London, UK (2025), Time For Women! 20 years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2025), Inequalities, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy (2025), Soft Impressions, Dundee Contemporary Art (2024), Conversations, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024), Breathing, Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany (2022) and Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2022). 

She is represented by Kate MacGarry, London.