Helen Elizabeth | Wise Wind I, 2023

58 x 86 cm

Edition of 5

Helen examines the relationship between the human and more-than human at this critical time for life on Earth. She explores human-nonhuman assemblage where the vitality and energy of materials, natural processes and elements contribute to the making of the work, raising questions about power, agency, interdependence and a ‘de-centering’ of the human, as possibility. Helen works onsite, immersing herself in the environments she is researching and drawing on a full range of sensory, bodily, and emotional responses to question and communicate the multiple ways we come to ‘know’. Helen views her practice as a series of encounters, which she documents through drawing, photographic processes, printmaking, video, 3D, and installation. She engages with notions of sustainability within the process; and seeks to find ways to lessen the impact of her artmaking on the planet, using materials from the site in which she is working to explore processes of loss, decay, repair, and renewal. Key themes are associated with materiality, deep time, impermanence, and change, along with broader questions about what is at risk and what is possible. Helen is an artist, activist and clinical psychologist based in London. She completed her MA Fine Art Printmaking at Camberwell College, University of the Arts London in 2021