Mini Series exhibition text by Jenna Collins
"Helen has a sophisticated relationship to video exploiting its potential to create experience directly, resulting in a raw aesthetic that exposes the painters approach to mark making. With a bizarre and dark sense of humour, Helen makes use of the objects that furnish her life to explore the psychological, challenging hierarchies and power relations...
Mini Series
"An exhibition of video and sound pieces exploiting the medium's potential to create experience directly."
Scenes from the Asylum Wall
"A performance installation produced as the result of a collaborative residency by Helen Sargeant (Visual Artist), Michael Mayhew (Performance Artist) and Scott Abraham (Film Maker) at the John Moore Hospital, Lancashire prior to its closure in 1997."
Brockhall Village
"Between 1995 and 1997, I lived and worked from a studio in the old nurses building at Brockhall Village on the site of a derelict Victorian Asylum together with 30 other artist, including the performance artist Michael Mayhew, who I collaborated with on a number of projects including Scenes from The Asylum Wall."...
Review of My House and Your House, The Big Issue, May 1995
"Its a chicken and egg situation"says Michael Mayhew of Furnace Performance Art Company. "Which comes first? The gallery where art is displayed or the space in which the art is made in the first place?"