Helle Helsner: Danish artist has made her home in West Cork 

A native of Denmark, Helsner’s interest in working with metal was partly what prompted her to move to Cork in 1994 to study sculpture at the Crawford College of Art and Design

Helle Helsner lives in Kilbrittain, and has a studio in Skibbereen. 

Helle Helsner lives in Kilbrittain, Co Cork, maintains a studio in Skibbereen, and teaches at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork city. “It’s a nice triangle,” she says. “It’s a fifty-minute drive to my studio, the same as to Cork, but it works, for some strange reason.” 

Helsner’s exhibition, Core: New Work in Bronze and Drawings, is running a little closer to home, at the O’Connell Gallery on Ashe St, Clonakilty until April 26. The work is largely inspired by her interest in the copper mines at Allihies on the Beara peninsula.