Helen Eberhardie Dunn   MFA Royal College of Art, Associate Royal Society of Sculptors

Helen's creative practice spans 30 years. From the classical to the purely conceptual, lyrical to discordant, and always deeply personal, Helen’s work documents her experiments in manipulating conscious and physical awareness. Her artistic practice is ecologically driven and subversive as it counters events currently constricting the expansion of human consciousness and compassion. She has 2D and 3D work in both public and private collections.

Helen graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1997, she is currently a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors based in London, UK. Recipient of international honors and awards, the 2004 Bursary from the Arts Council of Great Britain awarded for her traveling installation ’108 Crystal  Lotuses’, brought her to Colorado where the installation was featured at the UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art, [GOCA] She was subsequently awarded a year-long Fellowship at the University of Colorado's Heller Center and now lives in Pueblo.

Helen is primarily an installation and performance artist who uses film and sound to explore haptic awareness. Digital media in combination with sound, performance, object making, and drawing are used to identify threads of working practice. Helen is also an accomplished classical sculptor who trained at Wimbledon School of Art in London. As a student of Helen Chadwick at the RCA, she started explorations combining carefully crafted and found objects within an installation and performative context culminating in the series of performances ‘Tanjoki/Treebirth’ which took place in both Kyoto, Japan, and various locations in the UK.

Over the years Helen has completed a series of private and public commissions in both stone and bronze before returning to more conceptual and digital approaches to manipulating time, space, and material. Recent works include, ‘Bone Chimes/Body Fragments’ involving sound flows, vitrified porcelain, animal hair, silk, and film projection as a moving light source, ‘Interruptions, and Interventionist Landscape’ reflecting moments in time by the river, ‘Slow Videos’ which are made with the intent to develop feelings of unease in the viewer in order to detach expectations and upcoming project 'The Dry' an interactive, community involved public work exploring and exposing emotions in relation to severe drought and a changing environment.

Selected Solo Exhibitions / Performances

2022

2021

2020

2016

'Extinction List', as part of 'Truth' at BloBack Gallery, Pueblo. supporting artists: Matte Refic and Julie Kim

'Dakinis', paintings at BloBack Big BLO, Pueblo, CO

'Cocoon', performance at PPCC Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO 

‘Elementals’, Crispen Hall, Street, Somerset also curated in London by Dorota Rychlik