Helena Walsh is from Co. Kilkenny Ireland. She has been based in London since 2003. She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA in Fine Art in 2001 and completed her Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2004. Helena has showcased her work at many established venues such as Bodily Functions, Cork, The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, The Zaz Festival, Israel and Art Radionica Lazereti, Croatia. In November 2010, she performed at Right Here, Right Now, a showcase of Ireland's prominent live artists in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. In 2011 she performed Containing Crisis in the Fringe Out West at Strokestown Park House, The National Famine Museum, Ireland. Helena co-organised Gobsmacked: Getting Speechless in Performance, a one day conference held at Queen Mary University of London in November 2010 that bought together performance practitioners and researchers to discuss the intersections between writing, performance and silence. In 2012 Helena is co-curating Labour; a live touring exhibition of eleven female live artists resident within or native to Northern and Southern Ireland. Helena received a Doctorate Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2009 and is currently undertaking her practice-based PhD in the Drama Department of Queen Mary University of London. Through her research Helena is exploring live art, femininity and Ireland. |