Helena Gaudekova

Helena Gaudekova is a Czech-born (b.1980) artist and curator; currently living in York.
Helena studied Art and History of Art at the English College in Prague (1994-96), Christ's Hospital School, UK (1996), graduated from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (BA Hons, 2011) and University of Central Lancashire, UK (MA with Distinction, 2014). As well as being a free-lance artist, curator and translator, Helena has also worked as a curator of Japanese and Korean Art and Crafts collection at the National Museum in Prague (2011-2014). She is now a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of York.
Helena's work carries a touch of her long-standing interest in Japanese traditional arts and transcends these into a sensitive openness towards the subtle language of moods, colours and structures. She has been interested in Japanese as well as European philosophy and aesthetics and is intrigued by stimulating a dialogue between theoretical humanities (such as philosophy, psychology etc) and actual art. Therefore one of the projects of the artist is to participate at university conferences and workshops where she paints in situ finding a visual expression somehow parallel to what the speakers are presenting in their fields ...