Helen Pheby Explained

Helen Pheby
Occupation:Curator
Nationality:British

Helen Pheby is Associate Director, Programme, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.[1] Dr Pheby was Vice Chair of the Civic art gallery and theatre in Barnsley;[2] the Chair of UP Projects, London (2019–22);[3] curatorial advisor to ArtRole in Iraqi Kurdistan and NIROX in South Africa. She is also a Cultural Fellow of York St John University and was an advisor to the Arts Council Collection Acquisition Committee (2016–17).[4] Dr Pheby is regularly invited to undertake international lectures and tours including Sculpture Dublin (2020); Park 3020, Ukraine (2019); the Contemporary Austin, USA (2017)[5] and as the guest of Creative India (2013).[6] Helen has collaborated with Selfridges since 2018 to curate the Duke Street entrance to their flagship London store.[7]

Career

Pheby's PhD thesis considered the social and economic benefits of access to culture and the barriers to that access.[8] [9]

Pheby has worked with international partners to co-curate several offsite projects including the Kyiv Sculpture Project (2012).[10] [11] In 2016 she curated 'A Place in Time' at the NIROX sculpture foundation in the UNESCO Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.

Pheby's 2016 exhibition 'Beyond Boundaries: Art by Email' in collaboration with ArtRole in Kurdistan-Iraq gave a platform to artists in the Middle East and North Africa whose political and other circumstances made it very difficult for them to travel to the UK.[12] [13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2015 Awards. www.artsfoundation.co.uk. 11 September 2017.
  2. Web site: Dr Helen Pheby - The Civic. The. Civic. www.barnsleycivic.co.uk. 11 September 2017.
  3. Web site: UP Projects.
  4. Web site: 2016-2017 Acquisitions Committee - Arts Council Collection. www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. 11 September 2017.
  5. Web site: Visiting Lecture: Art Outside - Contemporary Austin. www.thecontemporaryaustin.org. 11 September 2017.
  6. Web site: Cona and Creative India Public Art Intensive to Host a Workshop by David Brooks - Artinfo. blouinartinfo.com. 11 September 2017.
  7. Web site: Selfridges now has its very own Fourth Plinth. 15 May 2018.
  8. 'Wot for?' - 'why not?' : controversial public art : an investigation of the terms. Pheby, Helen. Lucy.. 11 September 2017. bl.uk. 11 September 2017.
  9. News: Public art has become an unregulated free for all. Will. Gompertz. 11 September 2017. 11 September 2017. www.thetimes.co.uk.
  10. Web site: Dobrinya Ivanov / PinchukArtCentre. PinchukArtCentre.org. 11 September 2017.
  11. Web site: Kyiv Sculpture Project 2012 . 2017-09-11 . 2014-09-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903030105/http://ksp.org.ua/eng/ksp2012/ . dead .
  12. News: Art by email: When artists are trapped in troubled regions. Financial Times. 6 January 2017. Holledge. Richard.
  13. Web site: The Art Newspaper . 2017-09-17 . 2017-09-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170917171317/http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/make-art-but-can-t-travel-yorkshire-museum-asks-artists-to-email-their-tech-based-works-instead/ . dead .

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