Approved: 25.05.2022

Helen Garbett

Artist, Researcher

Approved: 25.05.2022

I am a visual and socially engaged art practitioner/researcher based in Stourbridge, West Midlands, England.

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Artist Statement

I am a visual and socially engaged art practitioner/researcher based in Stourbridge, West Midlands, England.

My work is primarily concerned with place and the in-between; natural, cultural and historical landscape, human/more-than-human relationship and interconnectivity. I am particularly interested in that which is commonplace but unnoticed, overlooked or seemingly insignificant. 

My art-based research utilises a range of collaborative, interdisciplinary processes including drawing, painting, collection, assemblage, installation, video, correspondence and dialogue, exploring the intersection between visual art, archaeology, ecology and social practice.

I am currently undertaking a PhD in creative practice at The University of The Highlands and Islands (Shetland and Orkney) entitled 'The Human Limpet Project'. A digital representation of the project can be seen on my website together with social media links.

CV & Education

CV: Helen Garbett

Personal details                                                                                                                                

Work address: Workshop 24, Ruskin Glass Centre, Wollaston Road, Stourbridge, DY8 4HF                                          

Phone: 07527 034662

Email: [email protected]

Website:  thelimpetarium.com  

Education        

BA Fine Art - Stourbridge College of Technology & Art - 1983

Diploma in Social Work - University of Wolverhampton - 2001

Advanced Cert. in Practice Education - University of Birmingham - 2003

BSc in Health and Social Care - Open University - 2008

Art Award Advisor - Trinity College London - 2016

MA Module Contemporary Art & Archaeology - University of Highlands & Islands - 2017                                                                                

MA Art and Social Practice (Distinction) - University of Highlands & Islands - 2020                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

PhD (Creative Practice) - University of Highlands & Islands - 2021 (in progress)

Summer School, Navigating Research Boundaries: disciplines, methodologies, environments and identities - University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2021

EARTH Scholarship International Cohort Programme, Environmental arts and humanities - Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities - 2023                                                                                                                    

Employment

Co-founded Goodlife Community Interest Company (Known as Workshop 24) - 2016 to date            

SEN Work Experience Provider, Glasshouse College, Stourbridge - 2016 to date

Volunteer Assistant, Kidderminster Arts Festival - 2017

Access Working Group Volunteer Advisor, Ort Gallery, Birmingham- 2018 - 2019            

Membership

Associate Member - Artist Workhouse, Warwickshire - 2017 - 2019 

Individual Member - a-n - 2015 to date

Schwarmerei Member - The Ort Gallery, Birmingham - 2016 to 2021

Professional Member - International Society of Education through Art (InSea) - 2018 to date

Professional member - Axis - 2022 to date

Member - Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford - 2022 to date

Member Porcupine Marine Natural History Society - 2023 to date

Graduate member - Royal Society of Birmingham Artists (RBSA) - 2023 to date

Most Recent Exhibitions and Events

Open exhibitions:

West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery, Walsall - 2022

Member Exhibitions:

Ort Gallery, Birmingham - 2021

RBSA, Birmingham - 2023

Project Exhibitions and Events:

'Sound Escape' - Ideas of Noise Festival, Birmingham - 2018

'Experience Colour' - Ruskin Arts Centre with The Goetheanum, Switzerland - 2018

'Face to Face' - Artist Workhouse, Warwickshire & Canwood Gallery, Warwickshire - 2019

'Shoormal' - Mareel Arts Centre, Shetland - 2019

'School of Social' - Circus Artspace, Inverness - 2020

'Brierley Bells' - Glasshouse Heritage Centre, Stourbridge - 2020    

'3 Mile Radius' - Glasshouse Heritage Centre, Stourbridge - 2020

'Sun and Stour' - Sensing Nature/Unlocking Landscapes Network - 2020 

'Albion: Care Don't Care' - 4th World Congress of Psychogeography - 2020 

'Revolution Booth' - 4th World Congress of Psychogeography - 2021

'Weathering the Storm' - Hawbush Community Gardens - 2021

'More-than-human-High Street - Colab Dudley - 2021

'Radio Public' Colab, Dudley and Resonance FM - 2022

'Houses of Wind, Wave and Voice: Human-Limpet encounters at the coast (beach workshop and installation) - Stromness, Orkney - 2022

'The Human Limpet Project (residency and installation) - Skaill Farm archaeological excavation, Institute of Archaeology, UHI, Orkney - 2022

'Radio Public Library' - The Market Hall, Brierley Hill and Resonance FM - 2023

'Field Works' - Colab, Dudley - 2023

'How Did We Get Here?: Exploding the day-to-day to explore climate relations (series of co-created workshops and installation) - Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich - 2023

Presentations:

The Human Limpet Project: The art of drifting, collecting and connecting - Holm Sound international broadcast from Orkney - 2021

The Human Limpet Project (visual essay) - (Un)Common Worlds III, University of Oulu, Finland - 2023

Publications:

The Perfect Museum of Me - Learning Through Art: International Pictures of Practice, ISBN 978-989-53600-2-4 (PDF), The International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) - 2022             

Commissions, Grants and Bursaries

'Experience Colour' - Art Section UK/The Goetheanum, Switzerland - 2020

'The Perfect Museum of Me' - Innovation Fund, Dudley Public Health- 2018 - 2021

'The Curiosity Club' - Innovation Fund, Dudley Public Health - 2019 - 2021

'3 Mile Radius' - The Ideas of Noise Festival, Birmingham - 2020

New Engine Micro-Bursary - New Arts West Midlands - 2020  

'Time Rebels' membership - CoLab Dudley - 2020 - 2023

'Weathering the Storm' - Arts Council England - 2021

'More-than-human High Street' - Creative Black Country/ Arts Council England - 2021

'Radio Public' - CoLab Dudley - 2022

'Radio Public Library' - Historic England/Brierley Hill High Street Heritage Action Zone - 2023

'Field Works' - Dudley Creates/Arts Council England