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Helen Rimmer

Disciplines

Installation, Video, Sound, Digital Photography, DVD production, Kiln Glass including jewellery, cards, panels, tiles, and sculpture with usual found objects and horticulture, exhibition skills and participatory public art projects OCN Level 1-3 optional (additional cost)

Workshops for Ages

Under 5’s to Older People and everyone in-between

Workshops Offered

Transgenerational workshop to collect oral histories and created e-memory boxes on DVD’s using scanned images, music, text and video

Fused glass objects such as panels, tiles, cards, jewellery.

Slumped glass objects using kiln paper, plaster carving, casting and moulds.

Digital film making and editing workshop

Casting workshop using sand, modroc, and dental plaster.

Sound track for video workshops

Digital photography and storyboarding workshops

One day installation using found and unusal materials

Floral maze and creative planting

Creative gardening permanent outdoor installation

Digital portfolios

Video backdrop and projections of performing arts productions

Exhibition skills and professional presentation skills

Artist Statement

Over the last five years, my artwork has been about investigating the subtleties of space, context, memory within the specifics of distinct locations; whether that is a gallery space, city arts festival, or a landscape. My art practice also engages the local communities/ audiences to develop dialogues to capture personal experiences and understandings of the world around them to archive the emphermal; intimate histories and experiences of life that can so easily be lost and forgotten.

With a degree in Sculpture and MA in Feminism and Visual Arts I transformed my practice from object based artwork to installation and I am now moving towards a more visual cinematic play between digital and video imagery, combining kiln formed glass, projection and objects such as scented plants.

My participatory artwork takes the elements of my practice and focuses on them in depth. Sharing my skills with the participants to enable them to create what they want to, develop their own personal style and creativity. I am an advocate of accessing the arts as equals. I enjoy sharing my work with others and have been using my kiln to explore dichronic glass work by create small colours studies that I have made into jewellery for my friends and family.

I draw my inspiration from the places and things around me. Producing artwork filmed and photographed in Dursley, Westonbirt Arobertum and most recently Woodchester Mansion where I turfed, planted and projected a film one of the upper corridors to create an installation based on the National Trust parklands surrounding unfinished Gothic mansion. I have also had my films Nomad (personal work) and Midsummer Magic (participatory work), shown as part of the Viewfinder Film Festival in 2006 and 2007.