Helen Sear
Helen Sear was born in 1955 in the
Helen Sear's photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980's. Her photographs became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in
Helen Sear was born in London and lives and works in Newport, Wales.
Helen Sear’s photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s. Her photographs became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. She continues to explore ideas of vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience, combining drawing, lens based media and digital technologies.
She studied at Slade School of Art, London and Reading University. In 1993 she received an Abbey Award at the British School at Rome and recent exhibitions include Grounded an Impressions Gallery touring show, Inside the View (part one) in Tarbes France and Spot at the Yard Gallery Nottingham. Her work was included in the exhibition About Face at the Hayward Gallery in summer 2004. A 90 page book, Twice was published by Zelda Cheatle Press in 2002 and she was one of the selected artists for Britain in Photo Espagna in 2003.
Recent exhibitions include 2005: 'La Mirada Reflexiva', Espai D'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain; ‘Grounded’, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery; 'Inside The View', Le Parvis, Tarbes, France. 2004: 'About Face', Hayward Gallery, London. 2003: 'Photo Espagna', Madrid, Spain.
Helen Sear is currently Senior Fellow in the Centre for Photographic Research at Newport School of Art, Media and Design, University of Wales, Newport. Coming from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s, her photographs have since been in numerous exhibitions, including ‘De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain’ (British Council, 1991), Photo Espagna (2003) and ‘La Mirada Reflexiva’ (Castellon de la Plana, Spain, 2005).
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