Helen Sear Explained

Helen Sear (born 1955) is a British mixed media artist specialising in photography and moving image.

Early life

Helen Sear was born in Banbury, England, in 1955 and grew up in the West Midlands.[1] Her mother was a teacher and her father a maxillo-facial surgeon and she has two younger brothers.

Career

Sear studied Fine Art at Reading University and University College London, and she studied at 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",[2] which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Sear received an Abbey Award in 1993 at the British School in Rome.[3] She won joint first prize for visual art at the National Eisteddfod in Wales in 2011,[4] and was the recipient of an Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award to develop new work.[5] Ffotogallery, Wales' national agency for photography published her first major monograph in 2012, Inside the View,[6] which was nominated for best international photography book at PHotoEspaña.[7] In 2013, she was awarded the Wakelin Award[8] for her work Chameleon, which became a part of the contemporary art collection at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and museum. In 2015, Sear made a solo presentation for Wales at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015.[9]

She has been described as a formalist feminist and counts Max Ernst as an inspiration, noting the paganism of Samuel Palmer, William Blake, and Paul Nash, but also quoting the Pre-Raphaelites.[10]

Sear was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in March 2024.[11]

Personal life

Her studio is in Burgundy, France, where she lives. She is married to the Swiss painter Andreas Ruethi.

Notable exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Inside The View, Klompching Gallery, New York, US, 2009 [12]

Sightlines and Pastoral Monuments, Klompching Gallery, New York, US 2012 [16]

Helen Sear, Klompchng Gallery, New York, US 2015 [18]

Helen Sear: New Work, Klompching Gallery, New York, US 2017 [19]

Group exhibitions

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Helen Sear . 2022-12-07 . Hundred Heroines . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Exhibitions - Current - DECOMPOSITION - British Council − Visual Arts. British Council. britishcouncil.org.
  3. Web site: Helen Sear: Artist's Talk « The British School at Rome. bsr.ac.uk.
  4. Web site: Lure. orieldavies.org.
  5. Web site: Arts Council of Wales | Helen Sear . 2015-02-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216155103/http://www.artswales.org.uk/arts-in-wales/inspire/make/creative-wales/creative-wales-archive/awards-2010-11/helen-sear . 2015-02-16 . dead .
  6. Web site: Helen Sear - Inside the View - Ffotogallery. ffotogallery.org.
  7. Web site: Helen Sear - Contemporary Art Society. Contemporary Art Society. contemporaryartsociety.org.
  8. Web site: Helen Sear wins The Wakelin Award 2013 . WIRAD . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216160108/http://wirad.org.uk/helen-sear-wins-the-wakelin-award-2013/ . 2015-02-16 .
  9. Web site: Arts Council of Wales | the 2015 Cymru yn Fenis / Wales in Venice Exhibition . 2015-02-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216155930/http://www.artscouncilofwales.org/arts-in-wales/venice/the-2015-exhibition . 2015-02-16 . dead .
  10. Web site: 2015-03-12 . Helen Sear, artist: 'I am trying to slow down the instantaneousness of . 2023-10-06 . The Independent . en.
  11. Web site: Helen Sear Artist Royal Academy of Arts . https://web.archive.org/web/20240511154140/https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/helen-sear-ra . 11 May 2024 . 11 May 2024 . Royal Academy of Arts.
  12. Web site: KLOMPCHING GALLERY — Past Exhibitions 2009. KLOMPCHING GALLERY.
  13. Web site: KLOMPCHING GALLERY — Past Exhibitions 2010. KLOMPCHING GALLERY.
  14. Web site: g - 39. g39.org. g39.org.
  15. Web site: bildkultur Stuttgart, HELEN SEAR – BEYOND THE VIEW. bildkultur.de.
  16. Web site: KLOMPCHING GALLERY — Past Exhibitions 2012. KLOMPCHING GALLERY.
  17. Web site: Helen Sear at Maria . photogaspesie.ca . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216171030/http://www.photogaspesie.ca/en/portfolio-item/helen-sear-a-maria/ . 2015-02-16 .
  18. Web site: KLOMPCHING GALLERY — Past Exhibitions 2015. KLOMPCHING GALLERY.
  19. Web site: KLOMPCHING GALLERY — Upcoming Exhibitions. KLOMPCHING GALLERY.
  20. Web site: Miesiąc Fotografii w Krakowie 2012 -- Photomonth in Krakow 2012. photomonth.com.
  21. Web site: We Have The Mirrors, We Have The Plans . mostyn.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216173923/http://www.mostyn.org/whats_on/we_have_the_mirrors_we_have_the_plans . 2015-02-16 .
  22. Web site: g - 39. g39.org. g39.org.
  23. Web site: Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK . QUAD . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216160316/http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/exhibition/hijacked-iii-contemporary-photography-australia-and-uk . 2015-02-16 .
  24. Web site: Summer Exhibition 2014 - Exhibition - Royal Academy of Arts. royalacademy.org.uk.
  25. Web site: Thames & Hudson Publishers - Essential illustrated art books - Face - The New Photographic Portrait. thamesandhudson.com.
  26. Web site: Brisées - 2013 . Helen SEAR . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216201253/http://helensear.com/2013/09/26/brisees-2013/ . 2015-02-16 .

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