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
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I am a multidisciplinary Artist, Arts Facilitator, Researcher, Event Organiser & Project Manager working with installation, video, sound, sculpture, performance & writing. Language, in all its forms, is central to my practice & using a wide range of media & materials, I investigate ways in which language (as a pluralist entity) can be used to immerse the audience in multi-layered psychological & physical situations. Through an intuitive process of discovery & a playful investigation of ‘stuff’, my work alludes to the complex struggle to achieve a level of equilibrium & balance in present-day society. It is rooted in contemporary experience in both an emotional (feelings & thoughts) & physical (materials & situations) sense.
My work is regularly exhibited in solo & group exhibitions & is contained in a variety of public collections. I have a number of public artworks, have been commissioned to produce site-specific work & have taken part in national & international residencies. I have produced a number of publications, including ‘Portion Control,’ (2017) & ‘A lot can happen in fifteen minutes’, (2016) which was the result of a collaboration with the independent publishing house UnstapledPress. I work collaboratively with David Foggo as marginendeavour to explore our affinities with text & design. I am also a member of Drone Ensemble, an experimental sound group that uses hand-built acoustic/electric instruments in extended improvised performances.
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 & group exhibitions & is contained in a variety of public collections. I have a number of public artworks, have been commissioned to produce site-specific work & have taken part in national & international residencies. I have produced a number of publications, including ‘Portion Control,’ (2017) & ‘A lot can happen in fifteen minutes’, (2016) which was the result of a collaboration with the independent publishing house UnstapledPress. I work collaboratively with David Foggo as marginendeavour to explore our affinities with text & design. I am also a member of Drone Ensemble, an experimental sound group that uses hand-built acoustic/electric instruments in extended improvised performances.
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.