Helen Marten review – Turner winner’s new show leaves you gasping
This is an exhibition teeming with sex, philosophy and the fragments of catastrophe – from multilayered abstract paintings to an embossed bar of soap
October 2019
Frieze London 2019 review – gags, tapestry and hardcore ceramic panda sex
Regent’s Park, London Dazzling colour radiates throughout the art fair this year, along with the scent of ayahuasca ceremonies and satirical pokes at the pretension – and aggressive fringes – of the art world
October 2018
Take that, Charlie Brown! The artists putting the pain into Peanuts
Anxiety, misery, vanity, heartbreak … Snoopy and the gang were always darker than they appeared – which is why artists have reimagined them for our angst-ridden times
July 2018
Hepworth Wakefield uses £100,000 prize to buy Helen Marten sculpture
Remainder of the prize money will be used to turn a nearby patch of land into one of the UK’s largest public gardens
January 2018
The Guardian view on contemporary art in schools: a joyful idea reborn
Editorial: In the 1940s, School Prints were a visionary notion to bring affordable, adventurous artworks into classrooms. Reinvented for the 21st century, they still are today
October 2017
More than 150 write letter denouncing sexual harassment in art world
Letter signed by 2,000 gallerists, artists, curators and administrators comes after allegations against Artforum co-publisher
December 2016
The Guardian view on Brexit and the arts: a backlash against the modern
The Guardian profile
Helen Marten: the Turner prize winner who took the art world to task
Michael Gove's anti-Turner prize tweets are childish
Charlotte Higgins
Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second big award in a month
Helen Marten: an artist who thinks differently from the rest of us
Observer critics' review of 2016
Laura Cumming: best art of 2016
Why is the Turner prize failing to engage with politics?
November 2016
Helen Marten: from a Macclesfield garage to artist of the year
She’s tipped for the Turner and has just won the first Hepworth sculpture prize. The 31-year-old talks about escaping an essay farm to create a parallel world out of matchsticks, pipes, spoons and threads
Hepworth sculpture prize winner vows to share £30,000 award
Helen Marten says she will split her winnings with the three other nominees as ‘hierarchical position of art prizes is flawed’
Helen Marten wins Hepworth prize for sculpture
Artist applauded for recent Serpentine show receives inaugural award at Hepworth Wakefield gallery
October 2016
Object lessons at the Hepworth Wakefield: the importance of sculpture
The Turner shortlist recognises the skill and significance of modern sculptors. Why do they need another prize? The director of the Hepworth Wakefield explains
Hepworth sculpture prize review – a brilliant beginning
The four finalists for the UK’s newest sculpture prize open up a rich, contrary world of bubble spumes, fly-catchers and a petrified forest
Turner prize 2016; Helen Marten/Marc Camille Chaimowicz – review
The restless variety of this year’s Turner prize show is a sure sign of format fatigue
September 2016
Runners but no riders line up for the Turner prize show
The leaves on the line stopping Josephine Pryde’s choo-choo are not the only bum note among Tate Britain’s contenders
