A new website for Flow
I have been busy creating a new website for Flow-the artists network for the Upper Calder Valley.
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I am working to establish a group with other artists, academics, writers, performers, poets and film makers who share an interest in and create work about the maternal.
Editions Project for Birth Rites Collection
I have created a limited edition artwork to help the Birth Rites Collection raise money to bring two tapestries and two documentation works by the internationally acclaimed artist Judy Chicago over from America.
Yorkshire Art Loop
As part of the Yorkshire Art Loop exhibition at the Pop Up Art Space in Bradford, I will be exhibiting a series of Digital Prints based on Facebook friends pregnancy cravings. This collaborative project is the result of 33 artists visual responses to a poem by Ian Mcmillan.
Mother & Child workshop
Created as part of the Big Draw, this workshop included a life drawing session from a Mother and Child life models, a seminar about the representation of Mother and Child in art history and contemporary fine art, together with time to develop work inspired by personal experiences of mothering.
Pregnant workshop
Created as part of the Big Draw, this workshop included a life drawing session from a Pregnant life model, a seminar about the representation of the Pregnant body in art history and contemporary fine art, together with time to develop work inspired by personal experiences of pregnancy.
Big Draw workshops: Pregnant and Mother & Child.
Both workshops are suitable for the beginner and experienced alike. To book a place on either of these two workshop’s or for further information please do not hesitate to contact me. Exploring the pregnant body through drawing and painting. Exploring the relationship between mother and child through drawing and painting. Exploring the pregnant body through...
Hebden Bridge Open Studios
As part of the 2011 Hebden Bridge Open Studios I will be opening the doors or my space at Linden Art Studio to the public on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of July.
New website for Linden Art Studio
The new Linden Art Studio website features news and information about artists Sarah McDade, Sheila Tilmouth, Louise Crosby, Joan Francis and Helen Sargeant.
Birth Rites symposium
Helen Sargeant was recently invited by curator Helen Knowles of the Birth Rites Collection to attend the Birth Rites conference at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
The World’s Wife
A project documenting the 5 day give away of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife for World Book Night.
“Helens book give-away”
Article in Todmorden News and Hebden Bridge Times about being a giver of The World's Wife for World Book Night.