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Sear studied Fine Art at Reading University and University College London, Slade School.
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Helen Sear
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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", which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Ffotogallery, Wales" national agency for photography published her first major monograph in 2012, Inside the View, which was nominated for best international photography book at Photo Espana.
In 2013 she was awarded the Wakelin Award for her work Chameleon, which will remain part of the contemporary art collection at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and museum.
She is represented by Klompching Gallery in New York, and is currently Reader in Photography and Fine Art at University of South Wales, Newport. Her work focuses on ideas of vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience with particular reference to the human and animal body and her immediate environment in rural Wales and France.
In 2015 Sear was selected to make a solo presentation for Wales at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015. Solo exhibitions
Gone to Earth, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 1994
Twice.
Once, Anderson O’Day London, 1998
Zelda Cheatle Gallery, 2000
Sightlines, Klompching Gallery New York United States of America, 2010
Display, G39 Cardiff, 2009
Beyond The View, Bildkultur, Stuttgart, 2012
Lure, Oriel Davies national touring exhibition, 2013
Pastoral Monuments, Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaspésie Canada, 2014
Group exhibitions
British Council touring Exhibition De-Composition, constructed photography in Britain.
1991–1998
Moments of Capture, Museum of Modern Art, Skopje, Macedonia
A Quality of Light, Office of Art project, Tate Gallery, Saint Ives, 1997
Here to Stay, Arts Council of England purchases from the 1990s Lausanne, Switzerland, 1998
Je t’envisage, la disparition du portrait: Musée de L’Elysée,
About Face, Hayward Gallery, London, 2004
Louisiana Mirada Reflexiva, Espai Doctorate’Art Contemporani de Castellon, Spain, (with Robert Longo and Perejaume ), 2005
Nothing Is In The Place, Krakow (Photo month), 2010
We Have The Mirrors, We Have The Plans: Oriel Mostyn, Llanduddno, Wales, 2010
Paris Photo, Aperture Foundation New York, 2011
Portmanteau, Halle 14 Leipzig, 2011
Hijacked 111, Derby Quad, 2012
New Perspectives: Landscape Art in Wales since the 1970s, National Museum Wales, 2012
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, 2014.
