Helen Grant uses a variety of means and materials to produce wryly humorous objects and paintings. Her practice is intentionally erratic, veering between untidy abstraction and cartoon-like representation. She is interested in the absurd, and in the relationships between comedy and pathos, colour and form.

In her most recent works, Grant uses commonplace signs and symbols as the basis for sculptures and textile pieces that question how we relate to and receive information from art, and from each other. The very obvious messages depicted by her sculptures seem to be only part of what they are saying, with their surface-level simplicity drawing attention to what is implied.