Following a hugely successful exhibition at Klompching Gallery, New York, and Hoopers Gallery, London, Helen Sear’s work was seen in Yorkshire at Duckett and Jeffreys Gallery.Inseparable features Helen’s Tale and Rice Field works. Tale explores the idea of visual narrative bringing together pictures made between 1986 and 2007. The works forefront Helen’s enduring interest in landscape in relation to both the human and animal body. and more recently the landscape as a living entity.

Helen Sear’s photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s. Her photographs became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Her work explores ideas of vision, touch, and the representation of the nature of experience, combining drawing, lens based media and digital technologies.

Her work was included in the exhibition About Face at the Hayward Gallery London in summer 2004 and La Mirada Reflexiva at the Espai D’Art Contemporani in Castellon Spain in 2005.

Solo exhibitions include Inside The View, shown at Gallery Harmonia in Finland in 2006, Beyond The View, Hoopers gallery London, and Klompching Gallery New York in 2009 and 2010.

Helen is currently Reader in Photography and Fine Art Practice and a member of the European Centre for Photographic Research at the University of Wales Newport.

Selected photographs available from ‘Tale’

Helen Sear - Inseparable

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Helen Sear - Ember

Helen Sear - Charm

Helen Sear - American Hat

Helen Sear - Cardiff

Helen Sear - Eve

Helen Sear - Speedwell

Helen Sear - Unnamed

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Artist statement

Helen Sear’s photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s. Her photographs became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Born in England in 1955 she continues to explore ideas of vision and the re-presentation of the nature of experience through lens based media and digital technologies. In 1993 she received an Abbey Award at the British School at Rome and recent exhibitions include Grounded an Impressions Gallery touring show, Spot at the Yard Gallery Nottingham and Hide at Ffotogallery’s Turner House. Her work was included in the exhibition About Face at the Hayward Gallery in summer 2004. A 90 page book, Twice was published by Zelda Cheatle Press in 2002 and she was a selected artist for Britain in Photo Espagna in 2003. He most recent solo exhibition was Inside the View at the Centre for Creative Photography in Jyvaskyla Finland 2006 and this work will be discussed in Liz Wells’ forthcoming book, Land Matters, published by IBTaurus later in 2008. She is currently Reader in Photography and Fine Art Practice in the Centre for Photographic Research at the University of Wales Newport.