Helen is a Stourbridge based artist-researcher. Having graduated with an MA in Art and Social Practice at the University of the Highlands and Islands in 2020, she is currently undertaking a PhD in creative practice with the University of the Highlands and Islands, Shetland. Helen’s practice-led inquiry entitled The Human Limpet Project is concerned with the complex, enduring relationship between humans and limpets, those commonly encountered but largely overlooked sea snails that live on rocky shorelines.
Developed over the past two and a half years, The Limpetarium is a contemporary wunderkammer or wonder-room which aims to illuminate the significance of relationship between humans, limpets, and the environment over time, and question the habitual ways by which we know the non-human world.
Influenced by philosophical approaches that explore human and non-human-relations and the agency of things other than human, Helen’s practice is interdisciplinary, combining drawing, painting, textiles, collection, assemblage, installation, and video.
It is not just humans that make things happen…
