Helen Dearnley Fine Art & Illustration
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Exhibitions
Latest Exhibition
Portrait Of Ian Duncan Smith With Bandaged Nose (after Van Gogh) has been selected to be exhibited as part of the A Journey exhibition at the Institute Of Mental Health in Nottingham from May to September 2016
‘A Journey: Loneliness, Hope & Resilience’ runs from 23 May to 23 September 2016. It is open for viewings on weekdays from 10am to 4pm. The Institute of Mental Health was on the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus.
Private view is Monday 23rd May 11.45a.m. to 1.00p.m.
For information about the context of this work, you can follow my blog - see this post.
Available to buy on Saatchi online here
For those that believe in "Art for Art's Sake" it's
-£1,000 - which is the equivalent of my current overdraft, and Iain Duncan Smith's fee for speaking.
Past
A Journey, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, May - Sept 2016
Wilgress Books, Lincoln, Feb 2016
Future Fest, Engine Shed, University of Lincoln, 2015
The Lincoln Simulacrum, Norman St Empty Shop, Frequency Festival 2013
Mail Art Exhibition, Norman St. Empty Shop, Lincoln, Oct & Dec 2012
Abandoned At The Exit – LAN Exhibition, Norman St. Empty Shop, Lincoln, Sept 2012
National Library Of Norway, Oslo, Norway Sept 2012
Library, Moss, Norway, 13th April 2012
Fictions, Gallery at St. Martin’s, Lincoln, 20th – 24th September 2011
How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Alley Café, Nottingham, 2nd – 4th July 2011
Lego Light Space Modulator, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, March 2011
British Art Show 7 Notts Trent Arena, Sunday 21st November 2010
Drawgasmic 2027 Cherokee, St. Louis, U.S.A. July 11th 2010
There Is Beauty In The City Gijón, Asturias, Spain July 30th until August 10th 2010
Alice In Disneyland LAN exhibition @ The Terrace, Lincoln, Lincoln Central Library
There Is Beauty In The City airSpace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent April 5th-17th 2010
O2 Arena, A-ha live @ The O2, Greenwich, London, Nov 4th 2009
One And Other/The Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, Oct 2nd 2009
The Lady Of Shalott site-specific installation with LAN, Lincoln Summer Gala, Saturday 18th July, 2009.
Helen took part in the Lincoln Artist's Markets during May and June 2009.
The Golden Record: Sounds Of Earth, The Collection, Lincoln. 20 March-1 May 2009.
Helen exhibited work in two final Degree Shows,
This Is It, the University of Lincoln Fine Art Degree Show 2008 – The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe, and at the faculty of Illustration for my Illustration Degree Show
New Designers, Islington, London, July 2008
AA2A scheme residency
Helen undertook a residency at the UL Sept 2009 - June 2010 with the faculty of animation. Blog
Final work was exhibited at Lincoln Central Library, Alice In Disneyland Exhibition, March 2010
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"The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe" 2008
Part of "This Is It" 2008 The University of Lincoln Fine Art Degree Show
a_n Review by Helen Jones
a n Degrees Unedited review by Andrew Bryant
"The imaginary was the alibi of the real, in a world dominated by the
reality principle. And, paradoxically, it is the real that has become our true utopia - but a utopia that is no longer in the realm of the possible, that can only be dreamt of as one would dream of a lost object."
Baudrillard, J, Simulacra and Simulations
United States of America: University of Michigan Press 1994
This work reconstructs and continues a comic book narrative based
upon the comic style imagery from A-ha’s 1986 music video Take On Me.
The fictional realm of the comic world and the real world
become conflated with a series of coincidences within the artist’s own
contemporary life; these re-animations changing the temporal dynamic of
what is perceived by many as part of an iconic 1980s music video.
Recent images of the band have been redrawn in the same style of
drawing as Michael Patterson’s comic book world, in order to re-appropriate the
imagery associated with Take On Me, as part of a comic book installation that
includes the series of coincidences that make an A-ha fan’s world part of a virtual
and real collaboration with the band themselves; a relationship that
transcends the boundaries of celebrity idolatory and converging the realm of the
imaginary with the real.
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New Designers, 9th - 13th July 2008, Business Design Centre Islington, London.
New Designers showcased my Illustration work - for more information about my Illustration work, see Illustration
Click here for details of New Designers stand
Helen's portfolio on New Designers