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Helle Cook is a Danish-Australian artist based in Meanjin/Brisbane whose practice explores the sensory experience of light, place, and belonging. Working across painting and textile installation, she creates diaphanous silk works that hover between abstraction and landscape, carrying the embodied memory of two homes: the expansive Queensland light and the quieter Nordic palette of Denmark.
Cook holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. She has held solo exhibitions across Queensland and Victoria, undertaken artist residencies in Australia, Italy and Denmark, and been featured in ArtsHub and The Design Files. Her work is held in private collections in Australia and Denmark. From a lens of wonder, Helle Cook creates and documents ephemeral textile installations in nature. It is an awe-inspiring process that has followed her around the world and back. The Fabric of Nature installation was created during a 2025 artist residency in Italy, where she dyed and painted the sheer silks with pigment inks before cycling north with the diaphanous works all the way to Denmark. The silks have since inspired her painting practice in her Meanjin/Brisbane studio, before being exhibited in Australia. Their mobile nature symbolises the notion of living in, and between, Danish and Australian light and place. |
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