Helen Robertson
London
I work with mixed media installation and live performance; relations to architectural space, site and context are pivotal to the work.
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Helen Robertson is a London based artist and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and Camberwell College of Arts, The University of the Arts London. Her practice foregrounds the liveness of experience, through an articulation of situations/configurations in which our encounter as viewers, participants, bystanders…. is pivotal. The pieces evolve through processual involvement with materials, process, space, bodies, site, context, history…works by other artists, writers, choreographers, architects….
She uses Duchamp’s concept of the infra-mince - ultra-thin - which he defines through examples (such as the space between mould and cast and the space of contact – warmth - between seated body and chair) to describe the space of interaction that concerns her; a space in which bodies are caught in a state of ‘becoming’ involving connections, disconnections, fusion and confusion.
MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College University of London
Performances/live event
2017 Incandescent live event, Greenwich with Bernice Donszelmann and Lucy Gunning
2016 Breath live event, West Bay Dorset curated by Force 8
2016 Wolfgang Tillmans Eu Referendum live event, Central Saint Martins
2015 another life, live event with props Camberwell College of Arts
2015 Enclosed Garden, Coleman Project Space
2014 triangles and circles live intervention Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre
2014 room to room Granary Building, Central Saint Martins
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 Bar at the Hayward, Concrete Café, Hayward Gallery
2002 Galerie Nei Liicht, Dudelange Luxembourg
2001 Collaborative installation with Stefan Eberstadt, Fiedler Contemporary, Cologne
2000 after image, Ausstellungsraum Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, Leipzig
1999 Matt’s Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Plan Unplan, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
2015 ways from here to there: Coleman Project Space. London
2015 History is Now: 7 Artists take on Britain, Hayward Gallery, London
2013 Focal Points: Art and Photography, Manchester City Art Gallery
2012 SV12 Studio Voltaire London, selected by Jenni Lomax and Mike Nelson
2012 Young British Artists II,
curated by Ryan Gander and Christina von Rotenhan, Dienstgebaeude, Zurich
2011 Scope – new photographic practices, Tsinghua University, Beijing
2007 Video Art Festival Prague, Gambit Factory, Prague
2005 Outvideo International Video-art Festival in Public Spaces, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2005-6 Size Matters Arts Council Touring Exhibition Yorkshire Sculpture Park,
2004 Contemporary Photographs from the Arts Council Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery
2002 The Difference between you and us, Five Years, London
2000 Schwarzweiss, photography now, Berlin
1999 Abstractionen, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1999 International Biennale of Photography, Turin
1999 Arts Council Collection in conjunction with Edward Weston, De la Warr Pavilion
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