Helen is a UK-based artist working predominantly in video and photography. Herwork was selected for New Contemporaries in 1998 and since then she has been exhibiting internationally (inc. Yvon Lambert, Paris, Kari Kenetti, Helsinki and the Centre for Photographie in Geneva). Her films and video works have also been shown at international festivals and screening events including the Commonwealth Film Festival, the Lux and the international Film Festival 700IS, Iceland, in which her film The Pack was shortlisted for the ‘Alcoa’ prize.In 2001 she won the coveted Fondation CCF pour la Photographie prize and her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Arts Council of England and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France. In 2005 Helen was awarded The Conversation Gap Award commissioned by Career Innovation (Ci), working on narrative-based projects with some of the world’s leading businesses.

  • BA (Hons) Fine Art

  • MA Fine Art

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Chartered Institute of Management (CIM)

Working predominantly in video and photography, her practice is anchored around intimate narratives : often understated or tacitly conveyed, and the visual exploration of the relationship between physical and psychological space.Since 2007, Helen has been collaborating with fellow researchers at the Lansdown Centre on a project relating to storytelling and location-sensitive technologies. The team have been working closely with the BBC Radio Drama department on this project and have trialled a pilot version of a Locative Radio Drama. The project is still in development and Helen is currently investigating the linguistic concerns of writing for a locative user experience.

Helen’s role as Research Artist with Vivacity2020, and AUNT-SUE was to work alongside architecture/urban design researchers at University College London, London Metropolitan University, Salford University and Sheffield University, looking creatively at issues such as housing, security, people’s perceptions of safety, and street design etc.This project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and was exhibited as part of London Architecture Biennale, 2006 and Urbis, Manchester , 2007. The work was subsequently shown at Cube, Manchester, 2007; Babylon Gallery, Ely, 2008 and Reykjavik Art Museum, 2009.

  • Close analysis of film work
  • The short film form
  • The integration of theory and practice
  • Articulating media practice as research

Researcher in the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, see reseach profile athttp://adri.mdx.ac.uk.contentcurator.net/bendon-helen