Hélène Williams
In the words of Plato, 'Nature has placed the love of wisdom in her/his mind'
279 Phaedrus
Helene investigates nature through her practise as an artist, psychotherapist and mystic. She takes us into an imaginal world where tales unfold and we are abandoned to the unknown. Inspired by her Swedenborgian upbringing, where it was understood that the spiritual world is mirrored within natural phenomena.
Mysterious performances, paintings of visions, and sculptures that 'have sexual energy, fragility and strength that can be thrillingly confusing.' - Jan Woolf/journalist
Internationally exhibited in India, Mexico, France, Holland and the UK. Reviewed in The Times, The Independent, Time Out, The Hindu Times and The Kentish Gazette.
| 2021 | MA Mythology, Cosmology & the Sacred www.mythcosmologysacred.com |
| 2012 | MA Arts Psychotherapy, IATE |
| 1995 | BA Hons Ceramics, Camberwell College of Art |
| 1985 | Post-graduate Certificate in Education, University of Durham |
| 1984 | BSc Hons Psychology, Hertfordshire University |
| 2021 | super natural, The Hundred Years Gallery Hoxton |
| 2018 | Curiouser & Curiouser, Whitstable Biennale |
| 2018 | Shamanic Mirrors, Whitstable Biennale |
| 2017 | Shameless, The Hundred Years Gallery Hoxton |
| 2016 | The Gateway Between Two Worlds Whitstable Biennale |
| 2015 | Touching the Earth, Mexico artist in residency |
| 2015 | Sacred & Profane The Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton |
| 2014 | Now in Reverse selected artist by, The Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton |
| 2014 | SHAMEn Whitstable Open House |
| 2014 | Fecund Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable |
| 2014 | Milking the Coast - performance, Whitstable Biennalle |
| 2013 | Filth & Frills, Brighton Festival, Open House |
| 2013 | Prawn Taming, End of the Pier Show, Whitstable |
| 2013 | SWEET'ART Summer Show, Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green Road |
| 2013 | Duchamp Festival, Herne Bay - Toilets into gallery |
| 2012 | London Design Festival, Design Junction New Oxford Street |
| 2011 | Tea room - performance + sculpture, Embassy Court, Brighton Festival |
| 2008 | Pandora's Other Box - performance, Horsebridge, Whitstable |
| 2006 | The Ordinary becomes Extraordinary,Canterbury Festival, Open House |
| 2003 | Brighton Arts Festival, Open House |
| 2003 | MoDA Outsized, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Hertfordshire |
| 2003 | I.D. Shellgrotto, Margate, Kent |
| 2002 | Margate Rocks, Margate, Kent |
| 2001 | 4 Photographers, Johnny's Art House, Whitstable, Kent |
| 2000 | 3 month residency - International Cultural Dev. Centre, Trivandrum, India |
| 2000 | 'Tying the Knot' - Exhibition, Cholamamdle, India |
| 2000 | 3 month residency, Cholamandle Artists Village, India |
| 1999 | 'Inside Out' - exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Queens Wood, London |
| 1998 | Curated and exhibited 'Worth' - a high-profile exhibition, St Pancras, London |
| 1998 | Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Etaples, France |
| 1998 | Solo show at Johnny's Art House, Whitstable, Kent |
| 1997 | Gillingham Open Art Exhibition |
| 1997 | International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Etaples, France |
| 1996 | 4 month Scholarship, The European Ceramic Work Centre, Holland |
| 1996 | Ceramists of Fame and Promise, The Orangery, Holland Park, London |
| 1995 | The Midlandgrand Exhibition Hall, St Pancras Station, London |
| 1992 | Hertfordshire Arts, Old Bull Gallery, London |
| 1991 | London Potters Prize Winners Show, Bloomsbury Gallery No1, London |
| 1990 | London Potters Exhibition, Morely College |
| 2001 | Ceramic water garden - Unit for Arts and Offenders |
| 2001 | Prisoners art project for 'Worth' exhibition, HMP Swaleside |
| 1996 | Mural, Sandringham Secondary School, St Albans |
| 1990 | N. London Murals in Inner-City Schools |
