Helen Maurer |
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| Alter 2017 50cm x 47cm x 11cm, projection approximately 50cm above and below the shelf. Photo: Sebastian Sharples | |
Helen Maurer is an artist and educator, working primarily with glass, light and sound to create site-specific installations. She was born in Portsmouth and now lives and works in London. Having spent many years living on a boat, water and reflection are recurring themes within her practice. Through experimenting with materials, research and conversation, Maurer endeavours to find a poetic narrative in response to a place/ idea. She originally studied Fine Art and Theatre at Brighton College of Art, Stained Glass at Central Saint Martin's where she was awarded a fellowship, before completing an MA at The Royal College of Art. She is a former Winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Glass; The Glass Sellers Award (highly Commended) and the Bombay Sapphire Prize (short-listed) and was recipient of Deloitte & Touche student prize for excellence at the RCA. Her work is represented in private and public collections including the Arts Council of Great Britain and The Crafts Council Collection; The Matt Collection and The Royal Geographical Society. She has exhibited nationally and internationally - selected shows include: Solo Show, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, Venice 2022; Yokai Solo Show, White Conduit Projects London, 2022; Maker's Eye Craft's Council Gallery, London, 2021; Group Show, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, 2020; A Trick of the Light, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 2019; Lightbox St Johns Church, Bethnal Green London, June 2018; Art of Glass National Centre of Craft and Design and National Museum of Scotland, 2018; Clarity National Glass Centre, 2015; British Glass Biennial Ruskin Glass Centre, 2015; UKGLASS Glazenhuis, Belgium 2015; Glass Games Contemporary Glass Society, London 2013; Fragil Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, 2008; Solo Show Pumphouse gallery, London 2006; Solo Show Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 2006; Solo Show, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, 2006; British Glass Biennial Ruskin Glass Centre, 2004; Jerwood Glass Prize Crafts Council, London (touring) 2003; Solid Air Crafts Council Gallery, London, 2002. Public commissions include: re Connected re Creation, commissioned by Illuminate York for Holy Trinity Church in York, 2016; From Page to Pavement, a sound installation for Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019 and a commission for the Royal Holloway College, Egham. Maurer has completed several Artist Residencies in schools, and teaches part-time at The Mary Ward Centre, London. She is a Visiting Tutor at University of the Arts, London and The Royal College of Art and has run master classes at North Lands Creative, Scotland and Bildwerk, Germany. She enjoys collaborating with other artists, choreographers and musicians and spends her spare time boating and writing poetry. |
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| > Curriculum vitae | |
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| > Exhibitions at the gallery: Danielle Arnaud Venice 2022; A Christmas Selection 2020; 25 Years 2020; A bird in the head 2017; re Composing 2016; London Art Fair 2016; Glass Cat 2013; The Rock Garden 2013; Wunderkammern 2006; In Spledid Isolation 2002 | |
| SELECTED WORKS *click thumbnails to view larger images | |
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| Looking Out and In Again, 2022 installation detail | |
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| Floating Field 2022 All Hallows by the Tower, London | |
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| Floating Field 2022 All Hallows by the Tower, London | |
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| Floating Field 2022 All Hallows by the Tower, London | |
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| Floating Field 2022 All Hallows by the Tower, London |
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| Danielle Arnaud Venice 2022 Work in progress at Danielle Arnaud Venice overhead projector, glass and mixed media | |
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| re Connected re Creation 2016 Commission by Illuminate York for Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York | |
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| Installation view: re Composing 2016 at Danielle Arnaud. Photo by Oskar Proctor | |
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| Installation view: re Composing 2016 at Danielle Arnaud. Photo by Oskar Proctor | |
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| Glass Fountain 2013 installation detail | |
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Set Dance, 2008, Overhead projectors, glass, mirrors, painted
wood and sound Towner Offsite, Winter Garden, Compton Street, Eastbourne |
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| High Tide, 2006, Overhead projector, glass, mirror and painted wood | |
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| Family Tree, 2006, Overhead projector, glass, mirrors, lens, perspex painted wood and video projector | |
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| Turn a Blind Eye, 2005, Telescope, flagpoles, flags, LCD screenmedium | |
| Turn a Blind Eye was part of The Nelson Touch 2005, presented at the Royal Naval Museum in collaboration with Aspex Gallery and was curated by Victoria Preston. Helen Maurer created a telescope acting as a camera obscura - projecting a small image of a scene outside the building on to a flat surface in the museum. In Portsmouth Historic Dockyard she has hung a Nelsonic message encoded in flags which is inverted by the telescope - a symbol of distress. The installation is complimented with archive footage of events and marches shot in Trafalgar Square, the sight of Nelson's Column. | |
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| Cave Painting, 2003, Overhead projector, glass | |
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| Untitled, 2003, Overhead projector, glass, perspex and metal | |
| Over Exposed | |
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| Over Exposed, 2002, Overhead projector, glass, perspex | |
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| Alpha Light frames, 2001, Projector glass perspex and wood, projection approx 250 x 300cm | |
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| Green Birdie, 2002, Glass, perspex, wood and halogen light | |
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| Loop, 2002, Glass, perspex, painted wood and halogen light | |
