
The Pregnant Archive
I presented a talk about my arts practice in relation to the representation of the pregnant body, pregnancy testing and 1970’s performance arts practice at The Pregnant Archive Symposium, Birkbeck University. I am developing a collaborative project with Jesse Olszynko-Gryn a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow based in the Department of History and Philosophy at The University...

Actions made alone in landscape after school drop off.
A series of short sactions made outside walking in the landscape near my home after dropping my youngest son off at school. These sketches deal directly with my feelings of being confined and frustrated by my role as Mother and are an attempt to release emotions into the landscape through my actions. The performances are...

Stay and play
Stay and play is a series of performances staged in Sargeant's home, a collaboration with her youngest son Naoise (Aged 3)

Blastocyst
A blastocyst is an egg that has developed for around five to six days after fertilisation. This series of ink drawings reference this moment when egg becomes a prospect of life, the drawings depict two torsos whose bodily organs work together and in conflict with each other

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.

Dog in a vent
Based upon a letter sent to a friend, here Sargeant's imagined narrative has the woman taking on the characteristics of a dog.?

Patient
Patient was made during an artists residency between 1995 and 1997 at Brockhall Village, Lancashire. Brockhall Village was being developed from a derelict mental asylum into a luxury secure housing estate by the property tycoon Gerald Hitman. Brockhall Village was built in 1904 as an Inebriate Women’s Reforatory, and closed down in 1992 as part...

Woman on x-ray
Woman on x-ray is from a series of drawings made in response to pornographic material found on the derelict building site at Brockhall Village.