Helvi Apted wearing Jacket of Arms 2022. Grant Street, Naarm. Photo Tobias Titz.

Artist Statement and bio

Artist Statement

Helvi Apted works across textile sculpture, expanded drawing and minimal video performance. Her foundational practice is focused on contemporary soft sculpture that includes anthropomorphic and bodily references, often using clothing and textiles as vehicles for memory and human experience.  She incorporates absurdist gestures, through drawing, movement or form, to both amuse and convey feminist perspectives on bodily experience. Helvi's work currently alludes to armouring, care and defence, love and the familiar.

Bio

Helvi Apted (she/her) is a Finnish-Australian emerging artist, born Wathaurong/Geelong. Helvi is a finalist in the 2024 Darebin Art Prize, a recipient of the R.L. Foote Design Studio Award and the 2023 Masters Mentoring, VCA Art Award. Helvi has had a solo exhibition in Blindside gallery and two-three person shows in Blindside, George Paton Gallery and Trocadero Art Space. In 2024 Helvi will show in the Linden Projects Space, Unassigned Gallery and at Neon Parlour (Thornbury). She is undertaking the Masters of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts.