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“Be the change you wish to see in the world. Nothing is more essential for the twenty-first century and beyond than personal transformation. It’s our only hope. Transforming ourselves is transforming the world”

In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Helen Tworkov

Interacting with the elements - water, earth, light, breath, sound, and space - I share my love and concern for our environment. Community and collaboration are the core of the practice.

 

Objects, installations, and performances are all expressions of reverence, offerings for the benefit of all beings.

ARTE POVERA and ecology

''Helen's installation, DIRT in an interior space, involves a 48-inch high pile of dirt installed within a gallery space, very much in the spirit of the Arte Povera movement in the late 1960s and in the early 1970s. The concept probes the idea of the unexpected in terms of place as well as questioning the predictability of location and reversal.'

Dr Suzanne MacCaulay, Chair emeritus VAPA Department, UCCS.

Arte Povera's exploration of raw materials and engagement with the viewer is considered highly relevant to contemporary art discussions.’ 

 

 "Arte Povera" at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, organized by the Pinault Collection, 2025

'Helen is an accomplished classical, contemporary sculptor living in Pueblo, Colorado. A student of Helen Chadwick at the Royal College of Art, London, her area of focus is spiritual ecology, integrating found and carefully crafted objects. She has developed ritual performance as a medium within installation and performative contexts. Her master’s degree culminated in a series of ritual performances, ‘Sound Mandala,’ in Kyoto, Japan, and locations in the UK. She is currently developing 'EARTHflows' and planning to tour the southwest US to raise awareness of water issues and solastalgia.'   

                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                       Gregory Howell, Kadoya Gallery/ Pueblo Star Journal                                                                                

                                                                                                                                             

Curriculum Vitae:  Helen Eberhardie Dunn
MFA Royal College of Art, FRSS Royal Society of Sculptors

1989 - 2024

1994 - 1996

Royal College of Art  MFA

1991 - 1994

Wimbledon School of Art  BFA

Selected Awards /Residencies/ Fellowships/ Honors/ Affiliations

2020

2019

2018 - 2023

2016

2015 - present

2011

2010

2009

2008

2001 - 2005

2004

2004

2003 - present 

1996

1989

Residency, Think 360 Arts                                     

Grant Award  - Exo-Sanctuaries    

Rough Ruby Arts Collective:    http://www.roughrubyartscollective.com/    

Grant Award - Pikes Peak Arts Council - Dartmoor Arts              

Residency, Colorado Springs School, Colorado Springs, CO.     

Residency, Green Box Arts, Green Mountain Falls, CO     

Fellowship, Heller Center For The Arts And Humanities, U.C.C.S., CO.   

Grant Award - BluePrints Project                                           

Grant Awards - Park City Arts Council for public commissions                    

Grant Award – Arts Council of Great Britain - UCCS Residency

Residency, Heller Center For The Arts And Humanities,  U.C.C.S., CO.   

Royal Society of Sculptors, MRSS  https://sculptors.org.uk/artists/helen-dunn     

Scholarship - Royal College of Art -Ray Finnis Exchange to Kyoto Gaidai, Japan 

Grant Award - Prince’s Youth Business Trust - Solo Exhibition, Elementals      

2024

Grant Award - ‘Remembering' public memorial sculpture 

Selected Solo Exhibitions / Performances

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2016

2004

1996

'Reclamation' installation, BloBack Gallery, Pueblo

Cracked Earth - Rising Blue, time based installation, BloBack Gallery, Pueblo

'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 

‘Secret Body, Secret Self’,  Manitou Arts Center, solo invitational exhibit of sculpture and painting      

‘108 Crystal Lotuses, A Prayer for Peace’, International Touring Installation funded by The Arts Council of Great Britain and put together during UCCS residency. This interactive installation was  set up and filmed at five locations in the US and UK including GOCA at UCCS, New Hall College, Cambridge and The Art Garage, Fenstanton   

‘Sound Mandala’, installation and performance at the Royal College of Art, with 

accompanying sound album

‘Tanjoki/Treebirth performance cycle’, Kyoto Gaidai -Japan, RCA -London, Protest Site -Newbury Bypass,, The Fridge- London

‘Chakra Experiment’, Plunge Club, Brixton, London. Tanjoki/Treebirth performance 

cycle

‘Hold Me’, solo performance, Newbury Bypass Protest Site, Tanjoki/Treebirth 

performance cycle

‘Cow Prayer’, The Fridge, Brixton, London. Tanjoki/Treebirth performance cycle

1995

‘Bunny’s Last Trip’, Tanjoki/ Treebirth Cyclle, Hyde Park London, filmed by the BBC

‘Prayer for Happiness’, Kyoto Gaidai Gallery, Kyoto, Japan. Tanjoki/Treebirth 

performance cycle

Selected Group Exhibitions / Performances

2024

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2011

2009

2008

1999

1994

1990

'Reclamation' ritual performance, BloBack Gallery. Directed and performed by H E Dunn with Zoe Madeen, AJ 'purestain'

Earth Flow/ Rebirth ritual performance, SoCAP, CSU Pueblo. Tei Kobayashi, Bob Marsh, Veronica Moffit, Ember Peaslee

FlowRate ritual performance, SoCAP, CSU Pueblo. Directed and performed by H E Dunn with Bob Marsh, Matte Refic and Julie Kim [SCAPE]

'ExoSanctuaries', Sangre De Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo CO with Laura Ben Amots, Ceil Horowitz, Cathleen Meadows, poetry by Hannah Star Rogers

'Breath of My Bones', BloBack Gallery, Pueblo, CO

‘Bone Chimes’, Faculty Exhibition, PPCC, Colorado Springs, CO   

‘Sand and Ice’, Slow Video, Armory Week, New York

’Secret Self’ Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge 

‘I Love You More..’, Teach Me, Show Me, Faculty Exhibit, GOCA, UCCS, Colorado Springs, CO   

‘End of Night’, ’AKA’, Faculty Exhibit, GOCA, UCCS

‘BluePrints Project’, FAC Modern Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO

‘Tantric Heart’, The Collection of Women's Art, New Hall College, Cambridge, U.K.

‘Chod’ installation, Cooltan Arts, Brixton, London also shown in Cannizaro Park, 

 Wimbledon, London   

Public Works

2005

2004

2003

2000 - 2002

‘Calyx’, carved polar jade, and cast bronze cement blocks, Kimball Arts Center, Park City, Utah

‘Flamebird’, bronze, granite, Swaner Nature Preserve, Park City, Utah

‘Wing’, bronze, sandstone , Canyons Resort, Park City, Utah

‘Snow Spirit’, National Abilities Center, Park City, Utah, USA

Selected Private Collections/ Commissions

Secret Self, Acrylic painting Series, ’Lilith’, cast bronze- single edition, ’Bee Head’, cast bronze - single edition, 'River Heads Series’, carved limestone, ’Goddess Marble’, carved marble, ‘Vesta’, carved limestone

time + action + remains = ART

‘How do evolving timelines invite intersections with ecology, expansion, and contraction?’

As an interdisciplinary artist, I explore conversations about spiritual ecology, creating immersive experiences through sculpture, performance, and installation that invite expansive awareness. I aim to create spaces for connection, reflection, and alternate perspectives. I am committed to contributing to a more just and compassionate world.

 

How can art catalyze change and inspire us to reimagine intersections between social and environmental justice and personal and collective change? My work is led by investigative approaches, incorporating locality, clays, found objects, pigments, fibers, plants, film, photography, sound, and light.

‘Can we experience spatial relationships through vibration harmony and dissonance?’

This work centers on curating collaborative ritual performances informed by solastalgia, our experience of climate change. EARTHflows is an ongoing project based on locality, reverence for the natural environment, and community collaboration. It includes EARTHflow Ritual Performances, Earth Experiments, and Ritual Action Flow Paintings.

As director of the ecological art collective SkySoul Studio, I host a platform exploring solastalgia. We are a developing collective of environmentally aware creatives collaborating on investigations into impermanence and ecofeminism. Public engagement in community events offers the potential for reframing ideologies of contraction. Art can unite people, challenge assumptions, and inspire us to envision new possibilities.

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