Helen Sear

Helen Sear’s practice focuses on the coexistence of human, animal and natural environments, and is rooted in an interest in Magic Realism, Surrealism and Conceptual Art.

She studied Fine Art at Reading University and University College London,Slade School, her practice coming to prominence in the late 1980s, when she worked primarily with mixed-media installation, performance and video. She completed a PhD by publication at the University of Wales Newport in 2009 and was visiting Professor at the Royal Academy Schools from 2014-2019. Her photographic works became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured extensively in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Sear was the first woman to represent Wales with a solo exhibition at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 presenting a suite of new works…the rest is smoke.

The British Government Art Collection and the Hyman Collection have recently acquired her work and other collections include the British Council, National Museum of Wales, Al Dabbah Group Art Collection, Manfred Heiting Collection – Museum of Fine Art Houston Texas, and the DZ Bank Frankfurt Germany.

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Chiostri di San Pietro | laboratorio aperto

MEET THE ARTIST

HELEN SEAR
INDEX NATURAE

WITH MASSIMO SORDI AND STEFANIA RÖSSL (OMNE)

Moderator TIM CLARK