Lot #8
Rachel Hellner Victoria, British Columbia Fish Ladder Silkscreen and collagraph 40 x 19 inches, 2002 Range: $650 – 900
Lot #7
Eve Sumsky Tenstrike, Minnesota
Much of Hellner’s current work is concerned with the
Crossing Paths Urn, 2005
relationship she has with her immediate environment. Her
Rattan reed
paintings and drawings either depict objects she observes as
12 x 7.5 (diameter) inches
important, or are actually constructed from those objects
Range: $120 - 140
themselves. Fish Ladder is a quirky tribute to recognizing individuality in everyday, mass objects. Seven fish were selected from among
Rachel Hellner was born in London, England, in 1968. She grew up there and attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design before moving to Canada in 1991. After two years
thousands that were lying in a wooden crate in Victoria’s Chinatown, and are portrayed here each with its own markings and individual character.
in Winnipeg and traveling the West Coast, she settled in Victoria,
I am interested in bringing attention to that which is often
BC, where she currently teaches art at the University of Victoria.
overlooked in our society. Excessiveness and mass-production
Hellner is a practicing artist and president of Xchanges, Canada’s
cause us to take things for granted and make it difficult to
oldest artists’ cooperative. Her work has been extensively
appreciate the inherent value or beauty in any particular object.
exhibited in London, Winnipeg, and Victoria and is in private
By singling out an object and portraying its individuality, I can
collections around the world.
draw the viewer’s attention to its uniqueness.