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Helen Higgins

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Helen Higgins is a London-based visual artist who has worked on a number of interdisciplinary projects and interventions with museum collections and art galleries in the UK and internationally, since graduation in 2007. Her artistic practice explores the origins of the museum and, in particular, how culture is used as a tool of social management. Interventions seek to question how the clean, ordered space of the museum/gallery was developed as a means of disciplining visitors in to what were seen as civilised ways of behaving, therefore becoming a means of instigating self-regulatory behaviour in its conversion of 'raw humanity' to 'civil society'. Recent projects have explored the boundaries between art and archaeology within the context of museological display, through a variety of media including printmaking, photography, video and installation.
 

Qualifications and training

2013: MA History of Art (Distinction), The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

2007: BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), University of Chichester, West Sussex

Solo exhibitions

2011: Helen Higgins@, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, West Sussex

2009: Anarchyology (End of Residency Exhibition), Christ's Hospital School, West Sussex

2009: Anarchyology II, Casson Gallery, Eastbourne, West Sussex

2008: A-I-R, Christ's Hospital School, West Sussex

2007: Embankment, Pallant House Gallery Bookshop, Chichester, West Sussex

2007: Unearthed II, Collections Discovery Centre, Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex

2007: Unearthed: A site-specific installation, Chichester District Museum, West Sussex

Group exhibitions

2011: Saatchi, Art Paris Collection, Grand Palais, Paris

2010: Affordable Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporary Art, Brussels

2009: Affordable Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporary Art, Battersea Park, London

2009: Edinburgh Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporary Art, Edinburgh

2008: Seven for a Secret, Yarrow Gallery, Oundle, Peterborough

2008: Theoretical Archaeology Group Exhibition 2008, Southampton University, Southampton

Degree shows

2007: Intervention, ArtOne, University of Chichester, Chichester District Museum, and Pallant House Gallery

Curated projects

2013: Picasso, Matisse, Maillol: The Female Model, The Courtauld Gallery, London

2012: Stage and Twist, Tate Modern, London (Research Assistant)

2007: Tactile Art Project (Arts Council Funded), Otter Gallery, Chichester

Live/Performance

2013: Invisible, Hayward Gallery

2009: AngelAngle. Collaborative dance performance, The Place, Robin Howard Theatre, London (Installation/set design - choreographer Aya Kobayashi) 

Intervention

2009: Skiving Trades, Christ's Hospital Museum, West Sussex

2007: Les Deux Plateaux, Palais Royal, Paris

2007: Unearthed, Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex

2007: Unearthed II, Chichester District Musuem, West Sussex

2006: Dark Matter, White Cube, Hoxton Square, London

2006: Embankment, Tate Modern, London 

Residencies

2009: Artist-In-Residence, Christ’s Hospital School, West Sussex Public commissions

2010: Archaeology (Commission: Impact Art), St Barnabas Hospice, Worthing

Projects

2009: PRINT NOW, London Art Fair/BEARSPACE, Business Design Centre, Islington, London 2009: Room to Read, Voluntary Teaching Project with C.H.E.S.S Nepal, Lamjung District, Nepal 2008: Co-ordinator of Arts/Workshop leader (National Community Action Strategy), Camp Galacuic, Foscani. Romania

Competitions, prizes and awards

2012: Saatchi's 100 Curators 100 Days: selected by Adam Budak (Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), Saatchi Online

2012: Saatchi's 100 Curators 100 Days: selected by Daria de Beauvais (Curator, Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Saatchi Online

2007: Lord Wolfenden Prize for Academic Excellence, University of Chichester, West Sussex

Educational experience

2013: Researcher/demonstrator, 'Print Culture in Renaissance Venice', Courtauld Summer Course, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

2012: Gallery Educator, Courtauld Institute of Art, 

2010: Primtech, UCL Experimental Archaeology Course, West Dean Estate, West Sussex

2008: Printmaking Tutor, Sussex Sculpture Studios, Partridge Green, West Sussex

Site specific

2006: Bad Art for Bad People (Work featured in the Chapman Brothers retrospective), Tate Liverpool

Other 

2013: Peggy Guggenheim Collection Intern, Venice

2012: Curatorial Internship, Tate Modern, London

2011: Curatorial Internship, Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, London

Publications

2014: Printmaking: Highlights from The Courtauld Gallery Collection (Teacher’s Resource)

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