ABOUT
The natural world in all its complexity is at the heart of Helen’s practice. It is an intimacy with the landscape and a sense of embeddedness that she seeks to locate in her work. She is interested in the stories that imbue landscape with meaning and significance, notions of transcendence; where we end and nature begins, and our own emotional geography. Helen meditates on our place within the more-than-human world, exploring narratives from history, ecology and folklore and shaping them with her own embodied experience of nature. She loves maps, birdsong, half-forgotten histories, wild places and getting lost.
Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum Print Archive
Scarborough Art Gallery and Museum's Trust
Art Acumen Purchase for Freshfields' Annual Exhibition
Awards
Printmakers Council Prize, The Natural World, 2021
John Purcell Paper Prize, Ochre Print Studio, 2019
Printmakers Council Prize, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 2013
Printmakers Council Student Award, Ochre Print Studio, 2013
Education
Turps Painting Correspondence Course 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
The Art Academy London Printmaking Certificate 2019-2021
BA (Honours) Graphic Design, Epsom School of Art (now UCA)
BTEC HND Art and Design, Richmond upon Thames College
Publications
Featured in the book ’Making an Impression’ produced to celebrate 50 years of the Printmakers Council
Memberships
Printmakers Council
East London Printmakers
Selected / Significant Exhibitions
2024 Bury My Songs, Terrace Gallery
2023 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts
2023 Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2023 Under Their Skin, One Paved Court, Richmond
2023 Do Not Swallow, Safehouse, Peckham
2023 Freshfields' Annual Exhibition : Art Acumen
2022 Material Presence, Fitzrovia Gallery
2022 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
2022 LOOP Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery
2021 A Print is for Life, One Paved Court, Richmond
2020 LOOP: Artists in Print, Espacio Gallery
2020 Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2020 RBA Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2018 LOOP: Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery
2018 Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2017 Lasting Impressions: Selected works from PMC Archive, Scarborough Art Gallery and Museums Trust
2015 PMC: 50 Years of Artist's Prints, Bankside Gallery
2015 PMC: Works on Paper, City of London Barbican Library