Helen Higgins

Helen Higgins (b. 1984) is a London-based visual artist, primarily working as printmaker/photographer, as well as employing a variety of media including installation, video and object-based works.

Helen has undertaken many interdisciplinary collaborative projects and interventions with museum collections and art galleries across Europe, exploring the boundaries of art and archaeology and the context of museological display using archaeologically unearthed materials and remnants of societies detritus in an endeavour to investigate and understand the human past.

Each intervention without permission is site-specific to the institution targeted, focusing on the subversion of the art institution by means of site-specific performance-based interventions within galleries, in order to shift the emphasis towards audience participation. "Observing how the museum 'imposes its frame (physical and moral) on everything that is exhibited within it in a deep indelible way'. Putnam, J: (2001)

2013: MA Art History (Modern/Contemporary) Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

2012: PG Dip Art History. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

2007: First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art. University of Chichester, West Sussex.

2007: Lord Wolfenden Prize for Academic Excellence, University of Chichester.

Curated Exhibitions:

2013: Matisse, Picasso, and Maillol; The Female Model. Courtauld Gallery, London (Research/Interpretation)

2012: Stage and Twist, Project Space, Tate Modern (Research Assistant)

2011: Reflections of the Self, Hayward Gallery Touring (Research Assistant)

Solo Exhibitions:

2011: Helen Higgins: Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, West Sussex.
Commissioned by Worthing Museum to create works in response to the museum's archaeological collections.

2009 Anarchyology II. Casson Gallery, Eastbourne.

2009 Anarchyology. End of Residency show, Art School. Christ's Hospital.

2008 A-I-R. Christ's Hospital School, Christ's Hospital, West Sussex

2007 Unearthed: Site-specific installation. Chichester District Museum.

2007 Embankment. Pallant House Gallery Bookshop, Chichester, West Sussex

2007 Intervention, ArtOne, University of Chichester. (Degree Show)


Group Exhibitions:

2011 Open 11, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.

2010: London Art Fair (with BEARSPACE Gallery, Deptford)

2009: Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

2009 Film Noir. Joy Gallery, Chichester. (Artel)

2009 Artel Art Trail: Various sites/galleries throughout Chichester.

2008 T.A.G 2008, Art & Archaeology. Southampton...