Head Cold (from red sea blue water series) 2007. C-type photograph on Duratran, face-mounted on glass, 173 x 39 cm, edition of 5 + 1AP. Installation photograph: Danny Kildare. ©Helen Pynor
Back Ache (from red sea blue water series) 2007. C-type photograph on Duratran, face-mounted on glass, 173 x 39 cm, edition of 5 + 1AP. Installation photograph: Danny Kildare. ©Helen Pynor
Head Ache (from red sea blue water series) 2008. C-type photograph on Duratran, face-mounted on glass, 173 x 39 cm, edition of 5 + 1AP. Installation photograph: Danny Kildare. ©Helen Pynor
Liquid Ground 2. 2011. C-type photographic print face-mounted on glass, 160 x 110 cm / 100 x 68 cm. Edition of 5 + 1AP / Edition of 5 + 1AP. ©Helen Pynor
Liquid Ground 4. 2011. C-type photographic print face-mounted on glass, 160 x 110 cm / 100 x 68 cm. Edition of 5 + 1AP / Edition of 5 + 1AP. ©Helen Pynor
Untitled (heart lungs), 2007. Knitted human hair. Photographs: Danny Kildare. ©Helen Pynor
Untitled. 2007. Knitted human hair. Photograph: Danny Kildare. ©Helen Pynor
The Body is a Big Place. Peta Clancy and Helen Pynor. 2011. New media installation and pig hearts performances. 5-channel video projection, heart perfusion device, single video screen, soundscape by Gail Priest. Performance Space, Sydney, Nov 2011. Installation photographs: Geordie Cargill, Peta Clancy, Helen Pynor. All images © Peta Clancy and Helen Pynor
Helen Pynor
BIO
Helen Pynor’s practice spans installation, photography, sculpture, video, new media and performance. Pynor holds a Bachelor of Science (Macquarie University), a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sydney College of the Arts), and a recently completed cross-disciplinary PhD from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Drawing on her dual backgrounds she has undertaken a sustained enquiry into the relationship between the materialism of the human body and its culturally constructed status, as well as exploring possibilities for re-imagining the interior human body. Pynor has exhibited widely in Australia and Europe, most recently in solo exhibitions at The Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney), Performance Space (Sydney, with Peta Clancy), GV Art (London) and Leonardo Electronic Almanac (with Peta Clancy), and group exhibitions at The Wellcome Collection (London), GV Art (London), The Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (Sydney). Pynor has undertaken residencies at Performance Space (Sydney), SymbioticA (Perth), A.R.T. (Tokyo), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris), the Australia Council Studio (London), Monash University (Melbourne) and Sydney College of the Arts. She has been recipient of several national awards in Australia including the RBS Emerging Artist Award (2009) and The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (jointly, 2008). Pynor’s work has appeared in publications such as Antennae, The Guardian, The British Medical Journal, New Scientist, New Statesman, RealTime, Artlink, Photofile, Australian Art Collector, and The Australian. Pynor has lived in Sydney and Paris and currently lives in London. [Download the full CV of Helen Pynor, here: http://www.helenpynor.com/helen-pynor.pdf ]
