Helen Britton

Helen Britton is a multidisciplinary Australian artist based in Munich, Germany. Her practice includes jewellery, sculpture, drawings, stencils and installations, and is informed by popular culture and folk art, threatened traditions, environmental destruction and human anxiety. Helen completed a Master of Fine Arts by research at Curtin University, Western Australia in 1999. She returned to Munich to complete her postgraduate study at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2002 she established her Studio in Munich with David Bielander and Yutaca Minegishi. In March of 2011 Helen Drutt-English launched a new catalogue of Helen Britton’s work in Munich. In 2013 at the invitation of The Neue Sammlung, Munich, an overview of 20 years of Helen’s work was shown as a solo exhibition in the Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany. In 2017 Helen was invited to create the exhibition “Interstices” at The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, Western Australia. In 2019 she was made adjunct Professor of RMIT University in Melbourne. In 2020 Helen was invited by the Bavarian Chamber of Crafts to curate Schmuck for the International handwerksmesse in Munich. In 2021 Elena Alvarez-Lutz released her documentary film Hunter from Elsewhere, A Journey with Helen Britton at Dok.Fest Munich. A comprehensive exhibition catalogue of The Dark Garden was published by Prearo Editore and Galleria Antonella Villanova, released in 2022. In 2023 Helen was made the 'icon' of New York Jewelry Week.

• Introduction 4Lisa Cahill | Treasures 5The Story So Far 7Julie Ewington | Magic 113Industrial 125Barbara Paris Gifford | Debris from the Dreams of Our Parents 155Stories From Elsewhere 163Katie Scott | First Loves 198The Rage of Dekoration 203Toni Greenbaum | Lucky Charms 242Gardens and Creatures 247Helen Britton, Robert Cook, Ted Snell | An Imagined Conversation 283The Archive 289The Story 305