HELENA HAMILTON

Education

2006 – 2009 University of Ulster, BA Honours Degree in Fine and Applied Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Climb Through the Holes in My Brain to Get to My Soulluos, I Promise to Wake Up Soon, Sound Installation/Live Performance, Black Box, Hill Street, Belfast, N. Ireland
2010 To Whom It May Concern, Paragon Studios Project Space, Donegall Street, Belfast, N. Ireland. NOTETOADISTANTGOD, Live Performance, Late Night Art, Paragon Studios Project Space, Donegall Street, Belfast, N. Ireland
2009 Carousel, Interpretive Live Drawing, The Black Box, Hill Street, Belfast, N. Ireland
2008 Wake, University street, Belfast, N. Ireland
Me You I, Common Grounds, University Avenue, Belfast, N. Ireland
Let’s Pretend, University Street, Belfast, N. Ireland
Untitled (Self Portrait), Clements, Royal Avenue, Belfast, N. Ireland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Condition of I, Castello di Carlo V, Lecce, Italy
Place All Dreams in the Bag of Hope, Palazzo Palmieri, Martignano, Puglia, Italy
] Performance S P A C E [, Durational Live Performance, 6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London
2010 In Memory of I, Celeste Prize Finalist Show, The Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, New York
NOTETOADISTANTGOD, Live Performance, Live @ Eight, Docks Road, Galway, Ireland
2009 Note To Self, Orpheus Building, School of Art and Design, York Street, Belfast, N. Ireland Note To You, Belfast City Centre, N. Ireland
2008 Me You I, Forfey Festival, Fermanagh, N. Ireland
2007 Untitled (I Am), Forfey Festival, Fermanagh, N. Ireland
Not Under Compulsion or Restraint, Operation Ambassadors – Boris Neislony, Bbeyond, Custom House Square, Belfast, N. Ireland
2006 Untitled (Self Portrait), Forfey Festival, Fermanagh, N. Ireland

Awards/Nominations

2010 Celeste Prize, An International Art Prize and A Network For Art Professionals, Installation and Sculpture Finalist, Awarded Third Place, Installation and Sculpture Category
Self Arranged Residency Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Travel Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2009 – 2010 Flax Art Graduate Residency, Flaxart Studios, 44 – 46 Corporation Street, Belfast, N. Ireland

Reviews/Publications

2010 Laminate: Art and Design Culture, "Helena Hamilton, To Whom It May Concern (IEQUALSYOUEQUALSWEEQUALSME)", UK Edition, Issue 2, p 69
Celeste Prize International Catalogue 2010, "Helena Hamilton, To Whom It May Concern (IEQUALSYOUEQUALSWEEQUALSME)"
Jamison, Brendan, April 2010: “Helena Hamilton at PS2" FARB, Fine Art Review Belfast, 12 August Mutchler, Peter. “Helena Hamilton: To Whom It May Concern (IEQUALSYOUEQUALSWEUQUALSME)”, PS2 Mailing List, April 2010
Forum for Alternative Belfast, ‘To Whom It May Concern (IEQUALSYOUEQUALSWEEQUALSME)’, Image For Cathedral Quarter Festival, April 2010.
Visual Artists’ Ireland News Sheet, “To Whom It May Concern (IEQUALSYOUEQUALSWEEQUALSME)”, Issue 4, 2010, p 5
2008 The Bloid, http://www.cubiod.org, Let’s Pretend, Belfast, Feburary 2008, Issue 2, p 16

Talks/Lead Discussions

2008 Let’s Pretend, University Street, Belfast, N. Ireland
2007 Untitled (I Am), Forfey Festival, Fermanagh, N. Ireland

Work Shops

2009 Alfredo Jaar, Warwick Building, School of Art and Design, York Street, Belfast, N. Ireland
2007 Boris Nieslony, Operation Ambassadors, Crescent Art Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland
Marilyn Arsem, Operation Ambassadors – On Site, Crescent Art Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland

Additional Information

2010 Drawing workshop designer and facilitator, Ulster Museum, Botanic Avenue, Belfast, N. Ireland
2009 Drawing tutor, Architecture department, Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland
Drawing workshop, Primary 6, Inchmarlo Preparatory School, Belfast, N. Ireland