Helena Goldwater
Individual
Roles
Artist, Curator, EducatorBiography
Helena Goldwater makes performance art and paintings. Her performances often last many hours, and her paintings can take months to complete. Her attention is firmly on the details of materials re-contextualised in a space, or the intensity of an image that seems somehow related to nature, in order to explore the hidden, unseen, to question and transform representations of truths of the natural order, and in doing so offer the unidentifiable, in between states of being. Her work has been shown at many galleries and festivals, nationally and internationally, including, Action: A provisional history of the 90s, MACBA: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; gut flora, MOCA, London; 1st Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy; If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, de Appel, Amsterdam; and at the Tate [Britain + Liverpool]. Most recently, she exhibited work as part of Zim-Zum: The Folding World, Patrick Heide Gallery, London, September 2022. She also researches and compiles material on UK performance art histories of the 1970s and 1980s. She co-curated (with Rob La Frenais, Alex Eisenberg/ Live Art Development Agency) an online resource about 1980s UK-based Performance Art, Edge of an Era, which also commissioned new works, and programmed a series of events.University of the Arts London, 2024
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