M(other) Stories
"Autobiographical writing is juxtaposed with photographs taken at home and during the school run using my smart phone camera. Photographs record the ever shifting, transitory time I share with my family. There are shadow portraits of me and my son playing, of my son sleeping, intimate observations of his body and skin, collaged together with...
The egg, the womb, the head and the moon.
The egg, the womb, the head and the moon is an online, interdisciplinary, collaborative arts project that will be exhibited as part of the AHRC Motherhood in Post-1968 Women’s Writing: Cross Cultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogues conference at the University of London’s Senate House on Thursday 24th, Friday 25th and Saturday 26th October 2013, and on Friday 25th October, I will be delivering...
Linden Arts Group Winter Exhibition
A group exhibition of work by the Linden Arts Group showing work by Joan Francis, Sheila Tilmouth, Louise Crosby, Sara McDade and Helen Sargeant, held at the Festival Shop, Hebden Bridge in November 2011.
Second born
A book created using documentary photography to record the work of a mother caring for her young 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."
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."
Aliens
"DVD made using digital animation produced in collaboration with Reception Class children at Shade Primary School, Todmorden. The children produced a series of imaginative drawings of aliens inspired by local folklore and sightings of alien landings in Todmorden, which were then transformed into paper puppets and animated using stop motion."
Lancaster Moor Hospital
"In 1998 I completed a 5 month collaborative residency at the hospital with Michael Mayhew (performance artist), and Scott Abraham (film maker). Based on the Conniston Ward we worked together to produce an interdisciplinary installation and performance piece. |"
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."