Helen Britton

Helen Britton
03.05.1966 – Lithgow, Australia

The research of Johanna Dahm can be perceived as a path that, starting from an area governed by extreme rationality, then set out towards a more intangible dimension, finally coming to immerse itself in the depth of the matter. From an initial interest in serial production, on the keynote of the democratisation of the jewel in the mid 70s, in the 80s the artist moved on to investigating the jewel as event, elaborating installations and works in which there is an extensive use of light, exploited to dematerialise the object and turn it into a visible but not tangible sign on the body. The latest phase of her work is characterised by the return to the material quality of the jewel, to its links with earth and fire. The Ashanti and Fast Ashanti series consist of works conceived through a personal elaboration of traditional casting techniques, where the a priori control becomes very limited, and the gold matter is charged with a vigorous physical sensuality.
The artist chosen by Giampaolo Babetto is Andi Gut

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

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

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 confi ni. 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

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

[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 confi ni. 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 fl owering. 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

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

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

Helen Britton

Helen Britton 03.05.1966 – Lithgow, Australia

Helen Britton
03.05.1966 – Lithgow, Australia