ABOUT

Helena Hunter works at the intersections of visual art, poetry, film and performance. Her artworks utilise poetic and performative modes to critically address environmental change and biodiversity loss, often blending sites such as the field, lab, gallery and museum. She has a Master’s in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and is currently in artist residence at the Scottish Association of Marine Science.

Helena has presented her work at Delfina Foundation, Gazelli Art House, Tate, Wellcome Collection, Gasworks, Arts Catalyst, ICA, Ambika P3, The Showroom, V22, IMT Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, [space], Art 13 Art Fair, DAM Projects (London); Tramway (Glasgow), Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester), MIMA (Middlesbrough), Millennium Gallery (Sheffield), Jerome Zodo Contemporary (Milan), Bòlit Contemporary Arts Centre (Girona), Lydgalleriet (Bergen) OFF COURSE Art Fair (Brussels), ArtVerona Art Project Fair (Verona), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Matadero Madrid (Spain) Mains d’Œuvres (France), ONOMA, HIAP Frontiers of Retreat, Titanik Gallery (Finland), Dalane Kulturfestival, Rogaland Kunstsenter (Norway).

Her critical poetic writing has been published in journals including MAP Magazine (Ed. Daniela Cascella), APRIA Journal, The Contemporary Journal (Nottingham Contemporary), Reliquiae (Corbel Stone Press), Alterity (Ed. Richard Skelton), Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Eds. Sarah Jackson & Daniel Cordel), MAI Journal and Something Other. Her poems are featured in Posthuman, Ecologies, edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall (Rowman & Littlefield International 2019), The Midden (Garret Publications, 2018) and Investigating Cultures of Equality (Routledge, 2022).

She has a collaborative practice Matterlurgy with sound artist Mark Peter Wright. Their work intersects art, ecology, science and technology, and operates across multiple platforms including installation, performance and sound. Matterlurgy were nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award Artists in 2023 and they were UK Artist Associates as part of the Delfina Foundation’s Science, Technology, Society programme 2019. Their work has recently been featured in Technoic Arts (Intellect, 2022), Third Text (2018), The UK Green Guide (2021) and in the publication Remain by Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider, published by the University of Minnesota Press, (2019).