Thursday Talks with Helen Britton

Helen Britton is a multidisciplinary Australian artist based in Munich, Germany. Her practice includes jewelry, sculpture, drawings, stencils, and installations, and is informed by popular culture and folk art, threatened traditions, environmental crisis, and human anxiety. In her lecture, she’ll give an overview of her recent artistic projects.

Helen Britton completed a Master of Fine Arts by research at Curtin University, Western Australia in 1999. During this period, she pursued guest studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, and San Diego State University, California. Following this, she returned to Munich to undertake postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Otto Künzli.
 
In 2002, she established her studio in Munich alongside David Bielander and Yutaka Minegishi. In March of 2011, Helen Drutt-English launched a new catalogue of Helen’s work in Munich. In 2013, The Neue Sammlung in Munich invited her to present an overview of her two decades of work at the Neues Museum in Nürnberg, Germany.

Further recognition followed, with an invitation in 2017 to create the exhibition Interstices, curated by Ted Snell for the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia, in conjunction with the Festival of Perth. In 2019, RMIT University in Melbourne honoured her as Adjunct Professor. Subsequently, in 2020, the Bavarian Chamber of Crafts invited her to curate Schmuck for the International Handwerksmesse in Munich.
 
Elena Alvarez-Lutz released her documentary film Hunter from Elsewhere, A Journey with Helen Britton at Dok.Fest Munich in 2021. The following year, Galleria Antonella Villanova showcased an extensive catalogue of the artist’s Dark Garden exhibition.

From 2022 to 2023, Helen was an Artist in Residence at ENSA in Limoges, France. In October of 2023, Helen was named Living Treasure: Master of Australian Craft by the Australian Design Centre.

A warm welcome to Helen's lecture on Thursday 28th of March, at 19:00 h,
AudiTorium, Object & Jewellery department, Building G, PXL-MAD School of Arts, Campus Elfde Linie, Hasselt.

Date:
​Thursday, March 28, 7 pm
at Auditorium, PXL-MAD,
Campus Elfde Linie, building G, Hasselt.