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Helen Storey
Helen Storey
e work of Helen Storey places itself somewhere beyond the scope of fashion in a frontier
space between art and science, a mysterious, unexplored void that the artist has entered
in order to forge a new language, a plastic code by virtue of which science acquires a new,
epiphanic meaning.
Fruit of the bond between Helen and her biologist sister was a restlessness that led the
designer and artist to comprehend biological processes using the language she knew best:
that of fashion. e result was her multi-prize-winning collection Primitive Streak, a visual
narration of the process of embryonic development through ...