PLAY AWAY
Ten Days at The Mothership, a collaborative arts residency by Helen Sargeant & Naoise Sargeant July 27th- 5th August 2017, Dorset, UK In the summer me and my youngest son Naoise (aged 8) spent 10 days at The Mothership, a beautiful straw bale live/work studio deep in the Dorset countryside. The Mothership is an independent...
Readings from M(other) & Son
Readings from M(other) & Son, performed at We Are Resident Exhibition, Islington Mill Project Space, Sunday 30th October 2016.
M(other) & Son: arts residency to Finland blog
In September 2016 me and my son spent 14 days as artists in residence at Takahuhti Artcenter, Tampere, Finland, supported by Nicola Smith’s We Are Resident project and funded by the Arts Council. I posted writing and images each day throughout the duration of our residency on the M(other) & Son blog.
The egg, the womb the head and the moon
“The egg, the womb, the head and the moon” www.eggwombheadmoon.com, has been created to show existing work and research-driven practice about the maternal by the Mewe arts collective in response to the title. The site includes documentation of visual art work, video, sound, performance and texts by members of Mewe, including contextual dialogue and blog posts that have...
“Helens book give-away”
Article in Todmorden News and Hebden Bridge Times about being a giver of The World's Wife for World Book Night.
World Book Night Giver
I have been selected to give away 48 copies of "The Worlds Wife" by Carol Ann Duffy for World Book Night on the 5th March.
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."
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?"