about the artist

Helen Kennedy is a multidiscipline artist, with works ranging across painting, cyanotypes and printmaking and drawing. Her visual explorations of the natural world and the personal relationship this has to light, colour & atmosphere, delivers ambient microcosms of interpretation within the work.

Kennedy imbues the environment with a personal vision.  By contending with the multi-faceted interpretation of the natural world, plus the diversity of vision regarding it, she reveals the complexity of seeing though a subjective lens.

Kennedy has an extensive exhibition career, underpinned by her residences and grants. This has included an Artist in Residence at the National gallery of Victoria and the Collie Trust grant in Paris, under etching Master Printers at Lacourier et Frelaut and Atelier Pasnic. She undertook further research with a residency at Bob Blackburn Workshop in New York.

This followed a period of three years where the artist was based in Paris, two of these years as a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts. The artist subsequently based herself in Germany, largely in Cologne where she worked and exhibited. Kennedy is now based in Australia

Kennedy completed her Masters of Fine Art at the National Art School in 2010. Incorporating teaching into her practice at the National Art School. The artist continues to offer multiple disciplines workshops, private classes and academic teaching.

Helen Kennedy is represented across public collections, including the National Gallery, Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has had multiple exhibitions in Australia and globally including France, Germany and Asia and has been short listed for a number of art prizes such as the Geelong Art Prize and the Deacon Graham Art Award, Ian Potter Gallery.

‘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

Selected Bibliography

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