2025 Paris Residency Fellows by Helen Grace

The Power Institute:
Foundation for Art and Visual Culture

https://www.powerinstitute.org.au/2025-paris-residency-fellows

Very happy to be part of this group! Looking forward to Paris next year!

Cité Marais

Bundanon Visit for Wilder Times Show Opening and Artist Talk by Helen Grace

For the opening of Wilder Times, on July 6th, we were accommodated in the Glenn Murcutt-designed Boyd Education Centre. Beautifully austere little pods, very Japanese-inspired.

And the night before our artist talk, telescopes arrived in the forecourt of the Boyd Education Centre and we went star-gazing in the cold, Scorpio striding across the sky in the middle of the Milky Way - and the Dark Emu!

Serious Undertakings in 'Wilder Times ... Bundanon from July 6th by Helen Grace

I’m happy to announce that the remastered Serious Undertakings (1983) will be shown in the forthcoming WILDER TIMES: Arthur Boyd and the mid-1980s landscape at Bundanon, July 6 – October 13, 2024.

I’m thrilled to be in this show, amongst the tradition of landscape painting with which Serious Undertakings was engaging at the time. The work will be shown in its own ‘screening room’ within the show.

Press release here

Poster Design: Jan Mackay, 1983

ARTWORK LEAVES FOR NEW HOME by Helen Grace

I’m very happy to say that my At the House composition (1981/2021) has moved out and found a new home – the Museum of Contemporary Art collection.

At the House, 1981/2021, 220 x 320cm

Work in new exhibition – Woman (seen) - Margaret Whitlam Galleries by Helen Grace

I have work in this new exhibition which has just opened.

Drawn from Western Sydney University’s Art Collection and loans from artists or their estate, Women (seen) celebrates 20 women artists connected to Western Sydney through work, study, family, or home.

Exhibiting Artists: Marian Abboud, Eddie Abd, Janice Bruny, Fiona Davies Helen Grace, Cassandra Hard-Lawrie, Kirtika Kain, Debra Keenahan, Margo Lewers, Audrey Newton, Mylyn Nguyen, Raquel Ormella, Debra Porch, Leanne Tobin, Catherine Rogers, Robyn Stacey, Justene Williams, Vicki Van Hout, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn and Anastasia Zaravinos aka Adonis.

With 10 percent of the nation’s population calling Western Sydney home, Western Sydney is Australia’s most culturally diverse region, providing fertile ground for creativity, rich with authentic storytelling, experimentation, and expression.  

Janice Bruny - Freshwater Mermaid Hunting with Digging Stick and Dilly Bag, 2013. Pencil, acrylic paint, acid free gelpen on paper, 55 x 75 cm.

From 1986 – 2009 Western Sydney University, or as it was then known as the University Western Sydney played a critical role in the advancement of visual arts literacy and training in the region through the art school on the Nepean campus. 

The legacy of the art school still resonates widely throughout the art sector today with an impressive list of student and staff alumnae working as professional artists, lecturers, and curators.

15 of the exhibiting artists in Women (seen) are part of the cohort of Western Sydney University’s alumnae across the study areas of visual arts, electronic arts, visual communications, and education. 

As with legacy, lineage also features strongly within the exhibition. Ideas and processes connect artists to each other, with their influences and antecedents, permeating the artworks on display. 

Women (seen) speaks of identity, community, and belonging. It celebrates what once was, and what is now