Helen Britton

03.05.1966 Lithgow, Australia

Education
1990–1994 BA. Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
1995    Honours (1st class) Curtin University of Technology, PerthAustralia
1997–1999 MFA, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
1997–1998 Guest studies at the Akademie of Fine Art, Munich, in the class for Jewellery and Objects Prof. Otto Künzli
1998    Guest studies at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guest studies at San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
1999–2003 Akademie of Fine Art, Munich, in the class for Jewellery and Objects Prof. Otto Künzli
2005    Diplom. Akademie of Fine Art, Munich

Solo Exhibitions
1997    Savage Princess Comes to Town. Crawford Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002    Pink World. Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004    Crisscrossing. Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris
2005    Second Nature. Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006    Urban Paradise Playground. Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
2008    Chaos and Clean Shapes. Klimt02 Gallery Barcellona, Spain.
The Things I See. Gallery Funaki. Melbourne, Australia
2009    Somewhere Else Completely. Bavarian Crafts Council, Munich

Group Exhibitions
1992    Carsick. The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2000    Quintet. Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia
2001    Mikromegas. Galerie für angewandte Kunst, Munich; American Craft Museum, New York, USA; Musée de l'horlogerie et de l'émaillerie, Geneva, Switzerland u.a. 
(Travelling exhibition until 2004)

2005    Choice – Contemporary Jewellery from Germany. Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan; Galerie YU, Hiko Mizuno College, Tokio, Japan; Schmuckmuseum im  
Reuchlinhaus, Pforzheim (Travelling exhibition)
Pensieri preziosi 2. Gioielli senza confini. Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, Italy
2006    Pattern recognition. Object Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007    Field of Vision. Sofa Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
2008     The Fat Booty of Madness. Pinakotech der Moderne. Munich

Awards
1997    The Australia Council: Development Assistence Australian Postgraduate Research Award
1999    Arts WA, Australia: Development Grant
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia: Chancellors Commendation for Research
The Australia Council: Development Assistance
2005   Academy of Fine Art, Munich: DAAD-Prize for Foreign Students
International Handwerksmesse, Munich: Herbert-Hofmann-Prize
2006   Bavarian State Prize, International Handwerksmesse, Muncih
Project grant for Fine Art from the city of Munich
2007   Erfurt City Goldsmith
2009   Luitpold Stipendium, City of Munich

Bibliography
[Cat.Exhib.] McMillan Kate, Parallel Worlds. International Art Space. Kellerberrin and Perth 2002
[Cat.] Helen Britton. Second Nature. O. O. 2004
[Cat.Exhib.] Holder Elisabeth u. Herman Hermsen (Hrsg.), Choice – Zeitgenössische Schmuckkunst aus Deutschland. Ein Lesebuch. Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami. Düsseldorf 2005
[Cat.Exhib.] Pensieri preziosi 2. Gioielli senza confini. Oratorio di San Rocco. Padua 2005
[Cat.Exhib.] Helen Britton. Urban Paradise Playground. Objectspace. Auckland 2006
[Cat.Exhib.] Holzach Cornelie (Hrsg.), Kunst treibt Blüten / Art ist flowering. Schmuckmuseum im Reuchlinhaus, Pforzheim. Stuttgart 2007
Lupton Ellen, Framing. The Art of Jewelry, in: Metalsmith 2007, Vol. 27, Nr. 4, curated Exhibition in Print, 14/15
Helen Britton is the City Goldsmith, in: GZ Art + Design, International Jewelry Magazine 2007, Nr. 2 (May), 95
[Cat.Exhib.] Field of Vision Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana USA 2007
[Cat.Exhib.] The Fat booty of Madness, Arnolsche, Germany 2008

Works in Public Collections
The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Stichting Françoise van den Bosch, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Die Neue Sammlung, Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich (Dauerleihgabe der Danner-Stiftung)
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
Schmuckmuseum im Reuchlinhaus, Pforzheim
The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
The National Gallery of victoria, Australia


Teaching, Lectures, Workshops
2002    Worksthop and Lecture at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
2003    Worksthop and lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2004    Lecture at FORM, Perth, Australia
2005    Workshop in Newman, Western Australia
2005/06 Guest Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Pforzheim (Wintersemester)
2006    Lecture at Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Lecture at  SOFA, New York, USA
Workshop and Lecture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006/07 Guest Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg (Wintersemester)
2007    Workshop and Lecture in Poria, Israel and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Concept and Organization of the Schmucksymposiums Zimmerhof "Jewellery Stories: 40 years of the Jewellery Symposium Haldenhof/Zimmerhof", Bad Rappenau
in collaboration with Doris Betz)
2008    Lecture at the Royal College, Antwerp, Belgium
Lecture at Birmingham University, England
Co- organizer of the Erfurt Jewellery Symposium
Lecture at the FAD, Barcelona, Spain