Helen Sear


Helen Sear is a photographic artist based in Wales, UK.

Career

Sear studied Fine Art at Reading University and University College London, Slade School. In the late 1980s she worked primarily through installation, performance and film. Her photographic works were included in the 1991 British Council exhibition "De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain", which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe.
In 1993 she received an Abbey Award at the British School at Rome. She won joint first prize for visual art at the National Eisteddfod in Wales in 2011, and was the recipient of an Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award to develop new work. Ffotogallery, Wales' national agency for photography published her first major monograph in 2012, Inside the View, which was nominated for best international photography book at Photo Espana. In 2013 she was awarded the Wakelin Award for her work Chameleon, which will remain part of the contemporary art collection at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and museum.
She is represented by in New York, and is currently Reader in Photography and Fine Art at University of South Wales, Newport.
Her work focuses on ideas of vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience with particular reference to the human and animal body and her immediate environment in rural Wales and France.
In 2015 Sear was selected to make a solo presentation for Wales at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015.

Notable exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

'Inside The View', Klompching Gallery, New York USA, 2009
'Sightlines and Pastoral Monuments', Klompching Gallery, New York USA 2012
'Helen Sear', Klompchng Gallery, New York USA 2015
'Helen Sear: New Work', Klompching Gallery, New York USA 2017

Group exhibitions