| HELEN
SEAR
Helen Sear was born in London and lives
and works in Newport, Wales
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. She continues to explore ideas of vision,
touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience, combining
drawing, lens based media and digital technologies
She studied at Slade School of Art, London and Reading University. In
1993 she received an Abbey Award at the British School at Rome and recent
exhibitions include Grounded an Impressions Gallery touring show, Inside
the View (part one) in Tarbes France and Spot at the Yard Gallery Nottingham.
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 one of the selected artists for Britain in Photo Espagna
in 2003
Recent exhibitions include 2005: 'La Mirada Reflexiva', Espai D'Art Contemporani
de Castello, Spain; ‘Grounded’, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery;
'Inside The View', Le Parvis, Tarbes, France. 2004: 'About Face', Hayward
Gallery, London. 2003: 'Photo Espagna', Madrid, Spain |
  
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