Yorkshire Art Loop
As part of the Yorkshire Art Loop exhibition at the Pop Up Art Space in Bradford, I will be exhibiting a series of Digital Prints based on Facebook friends pregnancy cravings. This collaborative project is the result of 33 artists visual responses to a poem by Ian Mcmillan.
Mother & Child workshop
Created as part of the Big Draw, this workshop included a life drawing session from a Mother and Child life models, a seminar about the representation of Mother and Child in art history and contemporary fine art, together with time to develop work inspired by personal experiences of mothering.
Pregnant workshop
Created as part of the Big Draw, this workshop included a life drawing session from a Pregnant life model, a seminar about the representation of the Pregnant body in art history and contemporary fine art, together with time to develop work inspired by personal experiences of pregnancy.
First Born
"A book created using documentary photography and prose to reflect upon a mothers time spent with her first child."
M(other) big draw workshop
"A workshop to coincide with "The Big Draw" exploring themes of the body and identity through creating a series of ink drawings. The workshop participants were from Level One BA Visual Arts Programme from the University of Salford."
M(other)
This solo exhibition at The Chapman Gallery, The University of Salford, featured a series of ink drawings and books exploring abjection through representations of the pregnant bod
Clifton Country Park, Wet Earth Colliery-
"Collaborated with Maria Stukoff, the children of Clifton Primary School ( "Clifton Cidz Colliery Company"), Salford Ranger Team, Salford City Council and Atomic Design to re-interpretate the site through producing art work to be utilised in an interactive CD Rom."
HRH Prince of Wales’ Socks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnRP_yCqtA8 Helen Sargeant gently mocks the pretensions of royalty, and by extension those in a position of unquestioned high regard. As the socks and their wearer strike poses familiar as those of the heir to the throne Helen whistles the national anthem. A disconcerting film that is as much a comment about the ownership of...
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...
Land poem song
Sargeant sings a version of Aretha Franklins’ I say a little prayer. A song of loss set in a suburban landscape. A woman’s identity disintegrates into her environment as she reflects upon a failed relationship.
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."
