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Helen Higgins

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Helen Higgins is a London-based visual artist who has worked on a number of interdisciplinary projects and interventions with museum collections and art galleries in the UK and internationally, since graduation in 2007. Her artistic practice explores the origins of the museum and, in particular, how culture is used as a tool of social management. Interventions seek to question how the clean, ordered space of the museum/gallery was developed as a means of disciplining visitors in to what were seen as civilised ways of behaving, therefore becoming a means of instigating self-regulatory behaviour in its conversion of 'raw humanity' to 'civil society'. Recent projects have explored the boundaries between art and archaeology within the context of museological display, through a variety of media including printmaking, photography, video and installation.
 

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Orictolegus Cuniculus

Thames Detritus

Total Numpty

Corvus Monedula. Re-run

Corvus Monedula

Alkmaar

Embankment Intervention, Tate Modern

Bank Side Artefacts

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