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helen pynor


 

 

Education
2010
Doctor of Philosophy
Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
1993
Bachelor of Visual Arts
Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney - Sculpture, Installation, Photography
1989
Art Photography Certificate
National Art School, Sydney
1987
Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours)
Macquarie University, Sydney - Biology
 
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Liquid Ground Dominik Mersch Gallery
2009
Swelling Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2009
Milk Sydney College of the Arts
2008
Milk Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2008
Love Letter Galerie Chez Robert, web-based installation gallery, France
2007
red sea blue water Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2006
Breathing Shadows Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2005
Shadowbreath Linden-St Kilda Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne
1996
Defence Artspace, Sydney
1994
Worth It Pendulum, Sydney
1994
The Body Crypta Selenium, Sydney
1993
Untitled installation 144 Cleveland Street, Sydney
 
Group Exhibitions
2011
Art Stage Singapore Representing Dominik Mersch Gallery
2010
Brainstorm GV Art, London. Curated by Robert Devcic
2010
Hands On Hazelhurst Regional Gallery. Curated by Cash Brown
2010
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010
Experiments on Plant Hybridization Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne. Curated by Drew Pettifer & Gillian Brown
2010
5 BY 5 Menier Gallery, London
2010
Melbourne Art Fair Representing Dominik Mersch Gallery
2010
National Photography Prize Finalist Exhibition Albury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2010
Psychometry Core Gallery, London. Curated by Nick Kaplony
2010
White Hot Dianne Tanzer Gallery. Curated by Dianne Tanzer and Lisa Keen
2010
AGENDA 2010 Dominik Mersch Gallery
2010
Jospehine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photographic Award Finalist Exhibition Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
2009
Hong Kong Art Fair Representing Dominik Mersch Gallery
2009
RBS Emerging Artist Award Finalist Exhibition RBS Building, Sydney
2009
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Finalist Exhibition Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2009
Willoughby Sculpture Prize Finalist Exhibition The Incinerator, Sydney
2009
Fraction CBA Studios, London
2008
Tendances: Contemporary artists in review The Art Floor, Geneva. Curated by Sascha Gianella
2008
The Vernacular Terrain Monash Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melborune. Curated by Stephen Danzig et al
2008
Postgraduate Degree Exhibition Sydney College of the Arts
2008
Jospehine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photographic Award Finalist Exhibition Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
2008
Bazaar ’08 Official satellite event of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. Clare Hotel, Sydney. Curated by Terminus Projects
2007
Undercurrent Two person exhibition, MOP Projects, Sydney
2007
Portes Ouvertes L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2007
ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Award Finalist Exhibition Sydney
2007
L’Art Emmêlé Hôtel de Crillon, Paris
2006
Antipodes Point Éphémère, Paris
2006
Post It Peloton, Sydney
2006
ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Award Finalist Exhibition Sydney
2006
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Finalist Exhibition Sydney
2005
Contemporary Collection Benefactors exhibition and auction Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2005
Antipodes Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
2005
re/thinking Bus gallery, Melbourne. Curated by Tristian Koenig
2005
Luminous Two Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
2005
Punch MOP Projects, Sydney
2005
Luxe de Luxe avenue K, Kuala Lumpur. Curated by Polyptyque, Paris
2004
Première Vue Passage de Retz, Paris. Curated by Michel Nuridsany
2003
Portes Ouvertes l'Imprimerie, Paris
1996
Enough Bankstown Square, Sydney
1995
Sydney Alternative Art Australian High Commission, Singapore
1995
Waste Not Waste EcoDesign Foundation exhibition space, Sydney. Publication and travelling exhibition
1995
Seep Centennial Park, Sydney. Artful Park outdoor sculpture symposium
1994
Artspace Open Artspace, Sydney
1994
T.I.P. Bankstown Square, Sydney
1993
The Second Time I Lost My Leg, It Was Stolen Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
1993
Unresolved Airspace, Sydney
1992
Brown Paper Show Allen Street Gallery, Sydney
1992
Value Allen Street Gallery, Sydney
1991
Natura Morta NCA, Sydney. Two-person exhibition
1990
Ask Iris Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
 
Awards and Grants
2010
Australia Council Visual Arts New Work Grant-Established Artists
2010
Australia Council for the Arts - Inter-Arts Project Grant
2010
Finalist, National Photography Prize, Albury Regional Gallery 
2010
Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
2010
National Association of the Visual Arts, Marketing Grant
2009
The Australia Council London Studio Residency and Stipend
2009
Winner, RBS Emerging Artist Award, Australia
2009
Short-listed, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
2009
Winner, People’s Choice Award, and Highly Commended, Willoughby Sculpture Prize
2008
Joint Winner, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
2007
Finalist, ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Award
2007
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme grant, The University of Sydney
2007
National Association of the Visual Arts, Marketing Grant
2006
Highly Commended, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
2006
Finalist, ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Award
2006
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists International Exchange Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts
2006
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme grant, The University of Sydney
2005-2008
University Postgraduate Award, The University of Sydney
2005
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme grant, The University of Sydney
2004
National Association of the Visual Arts, Marketing Grant
2002
National Association of the Visual Arts, Marketing Grant
1998
Australia Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant
1998
Australia Council for the Arts, Community Cultural Development Grant
1996
Australia Council for the Arts, Community Cultural Development Grant
1995
Australia Council for the Arts, Community, Environment, Art & Design Grant
1995
Australia Council for the Arts, Community Cultural Development Grant
1994
National Association of the Visual Arts, Marketing Grant
1993
University of Sydney- Cultural Grant
1993
University of Sydney- Cultural Grant
1993
University of Sydney- Shirbin Bursary
 
Residencies
2011
Australia Council London Studio Forthcoming residency.
2011
Performance Space, Sydney research residency. Forthcoming
2011
Research Residency, Sydney College of the Arts. Forthcoming
2010-2011
SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Human Anatomy and Biology, University of Western Australia. Research residency.
2010
A.R.T. TOKYO Residency.
2010
Monash University Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne Visiting Artist
2007
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris 5 month exchange
2006
Antipodes Artist Exchange Project, Stage 2, Paris Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
2005
Antipodes Artist Exchange Project, Stage 1, Sydney Sydney College of the Arts
2005
The Gunnery, Sydney New South Wales Ministry for the Arts. Residency
1998-2001
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney. Artist-in-Residence Public art works for Hospital site and arts-in-health projects. Funded by The New South Wales Department of Health
 
Public Art Commissions
2002
Stanton Library Foyer Project North Sydney, Public art commission. Commissioned by North Sydney Council
2002
Aqua-marine Crows Nest, Sydney. Public art commission and CCD project. Funded by Australia Council for the Arts, North Sydney Council & Royal North Shore Hospital
2001
Mt Druitt Community Health Centre Project Mt Druitt, Sydney. Public art commission and CCD project. Commissioned by New South Wales Department of Health
2000
Gaining Ground Traxside Health Service, Campbelltown, Sydney. CCD project. Commissioned by New South Wales Department of Juvenile Justice
1999
Newtown Bin Project King Street and Enmore Road, Newtown. Public art commission. Commissioned by South Sydney & Marrickville Councils
1998
Imagine Parramatta Road. Public art commission. Commissioned by Inner Metropolitan Region of Councils
1997
Crossways Crows Nest, Sydney. Public art commission and CCD project. Funded by The Australia Council for the Arts & North Sydney Council
 
Writings, Interviews and Conference Papers by Others
2011
Editorial, Picture of the Week, British Medical Journal, January 2011
2011
Dr David Dexter, Brainstorm art exhibition demystified the brain – it is not ‘degrading’, Guardian online, UK, 14 Jan, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/14/brainstorm-exhibition-brain-gv-art
2010
Jane O’Sullivan, What Now? Helen Pynor, Australian Art Collector Oct/Nov/Dec, p. 116-117
2010
Andrew Taylor, Body is Beautiful, The Sun-Herald 31 Oct, p. 34
2010
Anne Ferran, On Liquid Ground, catalogue essay, Dominik Mersch Gallery
2010
Lynne Dwyer, Liquid Ground Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald 13 Nov, p.12
2010
Juliet Gauchat, Liquid Ground Das SuperPaper Issue 16, 52-57
2009
Ashleigh Wilson, Prize Won With Ancient Knowledge, The Australian 21 Oct 2009, p. 16
2009
Esther Rose Berry, Aestheticising Transnationalised Hair: Envisaging Difference in the Sculptures of Helen Pynor, Trunk Volume One: Hair, eds Suzanne Boccalatte & Meredith Jones, p. 98-103
2009
Ashley Crawford, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Art World Issue 8, April/May 2009, p. 168-169
2009
Lenny Ann Low, Twisted Whiskers, Sydney Morning Herald, 16-17 May, p. 10
2008
Ashley Crawford, Pynor’s Lore, catalogue essay, Dominik Mersch Gallery
2008
Nick Dent, Critics’ Choice, Time Out Sydney, 5-18 Nov 2008, p. 51, 58
2008
Ashley Crawford, Visceral Voyeur, Photofile issue 83, pgs 44-47
2007
Clara Iaccarino, Undercurrent, Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald 28-29 July, p.16
2007
Jacqueline Millner, Undercurent, catalogue essay, MOP Projects
2007
Jan Guy, Tides of Hair, Lino, issue 18, pgs. 80-85
2007
Jan Guy, Never Ever Been a Blue Calm Sea: Notes on the works of Helen Pynor, catalogue essay, Dianne Tanzer Gallery.
2007
Jan Guy, Helen Pynor red sea blue water, In Trouble, May, p. 12-13
2007
Editorial, Undercurrent, SCA Fold, August, p. 4.
2006
Antipodes, catalogue for ‘Antipodes’ artists’ exchange project & exhibition, Point Éphémère, Paris
2006
Sundandah Creagh, Breathing Shadows, Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald 22-23 April, p.16
2006
Jan Guy, Breathing in the Shadows of Aporia catalogue essay, Harrison Galleries
2006
Esther Berry, From Temple to Transnational: The Politics of Hair and its Globalisation, unpublished thesis, Department of Gender Studies, The University of Sydney, pgs. 32-34, 38-39, 44, 47, 74, 78
2006
Tom Arthur, Antipodes, SCA Fold, April, p. 3
2005
Jan Guy, The Shadow of Breath, catalogue essay, Linden-St Kilda Contemporary Arts Centre
2005
Jan Guy, Arriving Here from No/where (Erewhon), conference paper, The Art Association of Australia & New Zealand
2005
Anne Kay & Jane Polkingthorne The MCA Tapes, video interview, exhibited at ‘Situation’ exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2005
Contemporary Collection Benefactors, catalogue for exhibition & auction, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2005
Antipodes catalogue for ‘Antipodes’ Artists’ Exchange Project & exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery.
2005
Adlin Rosli, avenue K Gone Luxe de Luxe, Klue, February, p. 22
2004
Michel Nuridsany, Helen Pynor, catalogue essay, Passage de Retz, Paris
2001    
Ali Benton, Totally Mosaic, SBS web magazine.
1997
Julia Jones, Artful Protest: Review of the Tradition of Environmental Art in Australia, Real Time, Aug/Sept, p. 8
1997  
Winsome Byrne, Newtown Wants to Clean Up Its Act, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 Dec, p. 37
1996
Chang Jing Er, Ecology, Design and Developing A New Thinking, Sing Tao, 20 March, p. E6
1996
Samantha Donnelly, Defences, catalogue essay, Artspace
1996  
Caroline Pidcock, Waste Not Waste, Architecture Australia, Sept/Oct, p. 38
1996
Neil Blenkiron, Waste Not Waste, Renew, Oct/Dec, p. 75
1994
Mark Jackson, The Space of the Fold, catalogue essay, Selenium
 
Self-Authored Writings and Conference Papers
2010
Transgressive Biology and Material Feminism: Bioconversations in Art, Evolution and Emergence, unpublished doctoral thesis, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
2006
IIn Suspension, catalogue essay, ‘Antipodes’ exhibition, Point Éphémère, Paris
2003
Art and the Language of Wellbeing in Adolescent Health Care, theme paper, Annals, Academy of Medicine Singapore, vol. 32 (1), pgs. 71-77 (Co-authors: P. Thwaite, D. Bennett, H. Zigmond)
2001
Art and the Language of Wellbeing in Adolescent Health Care, invited paper, International Congress on Adolescent Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Presented by D. Bennett (Co-authors: P. Thwaite, D. Bennett, H. Zigmond)
2000
Nurturing Creativity in Hospital: The Evolution of the Youth Arts Program, unpublished conference paper, Pacific Rim Conference of The International Association for Adolescent Health, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand. Presented by H. Pynor (Co-authors: P. Thwaite, A. Marshall, D. Bennett).
2000
Nurturing Creativity: A Hospital-based Adolescent Program, symposium paper, University of Newcastle Arts-in-Health symposium (Co-authors: P. Thwaite, A. Marshall, D. Bennett)
1997
Crossways Public Art Project, poster presentation, THEMHS Conference, Sydney. Presented by H. Pynor
(Co-author: L. Germanos)
1996
Mapping : Motions, in Waste Not Waste, eds. Tony Fry & Anne-Marie Willis, Sydney, Envirobook (Co-author S. Donnelly)
 
Collections
The Royal Bank of Scotland in Australia
Macquarie Bank
The University of Sydney
Artbank (Australian Federal Government contemporary art collecting agency)
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Private collections in France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, Australia
 
Representation
GV Art London