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Helen Sear RA (born 1955) is a British mixed media artist specialising in photography and moving image.
Helen Sear was born in Banbury, England, in 1955 and grew up in the West Midlands. [1] Her mother was a teacher and her father a maxillo-facial surgeon and she has two younger brothers.
Sear studied Fine Art at Reading University and University College London, and she studied at Slade School. In the late 1980s, she worked primarily through installation, performance, and film. Her photographic works were included in the 1991 British Council exhibition "De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain", [2] which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Sear received an Abbey Award in 1993 at the British School in Rome. [3] She won joint first prize for visual art at the National Eisteddfod in Wales in 2011, [4] and was the recipient of an Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award to develop new work. [5] Ffotogallery, Wales' national agency for photography published her first major monograph in 2012, Inside the View, [6] which was nominated for best international photography book at PHotoEspaña. [7] In 2013, she was awarded the Wakelin Award [8] for her work Chameleon, which became a part of the contemporary art collection at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and museum. In 2015, Sear made a solo presentation for Wales at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015. [9]
She has been described as a formalist feminist and counts Max Ernst as an inspiration, noting the paganism of Samuel Palmer, William Blake, and Paul Nash, but also quoting the Pre-Raphaelites. [10]
Sear was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in March 2024. [11]
Her studio is in Burgundy, France, where she lives. She is married to the Swiss painter Andreas Ruethi.
Inside The View, Klompching Gallery, New York, US, 2009 [12]
Sightlines and Pastoral Monuments, Klompching Gallery, New York, US 2012 [16]
Helen Sear, Klompchng Gallery, New York, US 2015 [18]
Helen Sear: New Work, Klompching Gallery, New York, US 2017 [19]
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