Helen Shaddock
Multidisciplinary Artist, Arts Facilitator, Event Organiser & Project Manager
www.helenshaddock.co.uk
http://helenshaddock.blogspot.com/
helen.shaddock@yahoo.co.uk
Born Dewsbury, 1986
Lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne
Works with installation, video, sound, sculpture, performance and writing
Multidisciplinary Artist, Arts Facilitator, Event Organiser & Project Manager
www.helenshaddock.co.uk
http://helenshaddock.blogspot.com/
helen.shaddock@yahoo.co.uk
Born Dewsbury, 1986
Lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne
Works with installation, video, sound, sculpture, performance and writing
I am a multidisciplinary Artist, Arts Facilitator, Researcher, Event Organiser and Project Manager working with installation, video, sound, sculpture, performance and writing. Language, in all its forms, is central to my practice and I investigate ways in which language (as a pluralist entity) can be used to immerse the audience in multi-layered psychological and physical situations.
My work is regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and is contained in a variety of public collections. I have a number of public artworks, have been commissioned to produce site-specific work and have taken part in national and international residencies. I have produced a number of publications, including ‘Portion Control,’ (2017) and ‘A lot can happen in fifteen minutes’, (2016) which was the result of a collaboration with the independent publishing house UnstapledPress. Using a wide range of media and materials, I seek to situate the audience in multi-layered psychological and physical situations. Through an intuitive process of discovery and a playful investigation of ‘stuff’, my work alludes to the complex struggle to achieve a level of equilibrium and balance in present-day society. It is rooted in contemporary experience in both an emotional (feelings and thoughts) and physical (materials and situations) sense.
My most recent project ‘Voices: Within and Without’, was funded by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts. This was a project in which I worked with other voice hearers, artists, researchers, academics and Mental Health organisations to investigate visual hallucinations and the experience of hearing voices. During the project I participated in a Spoken Word residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, presented my four-channel audio installation ‘Everything Will Be Alright’ at Cheeseburn, Northumberland, and delivered a reading group and spoken word performance workshop and event at TURF Projects, London. The project culminated in ‘THEMSELVES HERE TOGETHER’, an audio-visual installation at The Word, South Shields in April 2018. I am involved in a NUHRI funded project called ‘Recovering the Voice’ with Jenny Richards, (Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University) and Violetta Hionidou (Head of History, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Newcastle University). We organised a 'Recovering the Voice' event held at The Word, South Shields in April 2018 to coincide with my solo exhibition.
My work is regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and is contained in a variety of public collections. I have a number of public artworks, have been commissioned to produce site-specific work and have taken part in national and international residencies. I have produced a number of publications, including ‘Portion Control,’ (2017) and ‘A lot can happen in fifteen minutes’, (2016) which was the result of a collaboration with the independent publishing house UnstapledPress. Using a wide range of media and materials, I seek to situate the audience in multi-layered psychological and physical situations. Through an intuitive process of discovery and a playful investigation of ‘stuff’, my work alludes to the complex struggle to achieve a level of equilibrium and balance in present-day society. It is rooted in contemporary experience in both an emotional (feelings and thoughts) and physical (materials and situations) sense.
My most recent project ‘Voices: Within and Without’, was funded by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts. This was a project in which I worked with other voice hearers, artists, researchers, academics and Mental Health organisations to investigate visual hallucinations and the experience of hearing voices. During the project I participated in a Spoken Word residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, presented my four-channel audio installation ‘Everything Will Be Alright’ at Cheeseburn, Northumberland, and delivered a reading group and spoken word performance workshop and event at TURF Projects, London. The project culminated in ‘THEMSELVES HERE TOGETHER’, an audio-visual installation at The Word, South Shields in April 2018. I am involved in a NUHRI funded project called ‘Recovering the Voice’ with Jenny Richards, (Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University) and Violetta Hionidou (Head of History, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Newcastle University). We organised a 'Recovering the Voice' event held at The Word, South Shields in April 2018 to coincide with my solo exhibition.