Photographers

Helen Sear’s photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s. Her photographs became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Born in England she continues to explore ideas of vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience, combining drawing, lens based media and digital technologies.

In 1993 she received an Abbey Award at the British School at Rome and recent exhibitions include Grounded an Impressions Gallery touring show, Inside the View (part one) in Tarbes France and Spot at the Yard Gallery Nottingham. Her work was included in the exhibition About Face at the Hayward Gallery in summer 2004. A 90 page book, Twice was published by Zelda Cheatle Press in 2002 and she was one of the selected artists for Britain in Photo Espagna in 2003. In October 2005 her work formed part of the exhibition La Mirada Reflexiva at the Espai D’Art Contemporani  in Castellon Spain, and recent exhibitions include the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Jyvaskyla Finland and Ayermanana Cuenca Spain, both in October 2006.

She presented a new site specific work for Locws3 in Swansea 2007 and is featured in the Thames and Hudson book Face:The New Photographic Portrait. Her work will be discussed in the forthcoming publication Land Matters by Liz Wells, and a new video work The Change was exhibited in St Petersburg, Russia in 2008. Klompching Gallery presented her work Inside The View in her first solo exhibition in New York in January 2009 and G39 Cardiff presented a new installation and publication Tale in March 2009. She is currently Reader in Photography and Fine Art Practice at the University of Wales Newport. 

The exhibition Beyond The View  will run from Oct 22 to Nov 27.