David Risley Gallery is pleased to announce the first London solo show of Helen Frik.

Frik was born in England and left Chelsea School of Art in 1979 to study sculpture in Brighton. Following this she studied at the Ateliers 63 in Haarlem. She has been living and working in Amsterdam since 1983 and has had solo shows at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dôle.

This exhibition will present works from the last 10 years. Not a definitive retrospective, more of an overview of sculpture and recent works on paper. Themes run throughout the work; Human failing, art's inability to live up to life. In the drawing 'Art can never be (as shocking as nature)' 2005 the hairiness of the real tarantula overpowers the 2-dimensional imagery. Art's role as communicator of ideas often fails. Art can be seen as a mediator, a way of getting the thoughts of the artist into the head of the viewer. Suggestions and propositions as opposed to fact. This is where the problems start. Imagery is open to interpretation and misreading. Frik's work deals with these problems. Our inability to communicate and art's inability to reflect this. Misunderstandings and gaps in human knowledge. The reassuring dependability of the physical world; gravity, mass   etc. opposed to the unquantifiable nature of human emotion.