“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
Think 360 Arts, Denver, CO. https://think360arts.org/artists/hellen-eberhardie-dunn/
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