BIOGRAPHY
Helen Kennedy’s work is not about the landscape, but our experience of it. Suffused in light – the amber of glow or twilight, silvery tendrils of moonlight – she takes the viewer on a walk.
- Art & Collector
Helen Kennedy is an accomplished Melbourne mixed media artist focusing on painting, cyanotypes and printmaking. She is represented across public collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria NGV and Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has had many solo exhibitions and been short listed for a number of art prizes.
After exhibiting Australia wide for many years, Kennedy received a grant from the Collie Trust to spend 6 months in Paris working with Master Printers etching at Lacourier et Frelaut and Atelier Pasnic. Helen then went onto spend her next 3 years between New York and Paris becoming a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts.
Helen went onto complete her Masters of Fine Art at the National Art School in 2010. Incorporating teaching into her practice at the National Art School, Kennedy spreads herself to multiple disciplines of workshops, private classes and academic teaching.
Kennedy continues to explore her understanding of landscapes but more specifically our personal relationships to light & atmosphere. Creating ambient microcosms within her works, Kennedy intends to place human emotions into the environment contending we don’t see an environment in its pure state but instead through our own subjective lens.
