Hélène König is a French sculptural artist based on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Her practice explores the relationship between material, memory, and our sense of home.

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For König, creating is an act of building home: a way of making sense of place, preserving experience, and giving physical form to the things that continue to shape us. Through slow, intuitive processes of layering, carving, assembling, and reworking materials, each piece becomes an exploration of how identity and lived experience are gradually constructed over time. Rather than pursuing perfection, she embraces irregularity and the visible traces of making, allowing each work to evolve organically.

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Working predominantly with reclaimed and humble materials, König is interested in transformation, both physical and emotional. Her works often exist somewhere between sculpture, furniture, and collectable design, resisting fixed categorisation while encouraging a considered engagement with space, surface, and the body.

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From her studio in Byron Bay, König continues to expand a practice driven by experimentation and an enduring interest in how the objects we surround ourselves with hold meaning over time.

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SELECTED EXHIBITION & FEATURES

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2026| States Of Becoming (Duo exhibition), Harlow Gallery, Melbourne

 

2025 | Duality (solo exhibition), Byron Bay

 

2024–present | Resident Artist, Tigmi Trading, Byron Bay

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2025 | Artist feature, Marie Claire Australia

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2025 | An Instinctive Approach to Form and Material, Tigmi Trading Journal