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Artist Helaine Blumenfeld in conversation with Rosy Gray, Head of Living Art
June 2025
Rosy Gray speaks to Helaine Blumenfeld to mark the Sainsbury Centre’s acquisition of the artist’s work ‘Shadow Figures’.
The Sainsburys’ “idea about how they saw a museum was very much my idea of how a museum should be, a kind of almost ‘not’ museum.”
In this interview with Rosy Gray, Blumenfeld reflects on her history with the Sainsbury Centre, the venue for her first ever UK exhibition in 1981, and the enduring relationship she has with the museum into the present day. This in conversation event celebrated the Centre’s acquisition of Blumenfeld’s stunning work ‘Shadow Figures’ with the help of the Contemporary Art Society. The work now resides in our Living Area.
Interviewer: Rosy Gray
Editing: El Watson