About

Helen’s work is concerned with a phenomenological experience of space and place and how this can be translated through a visual arts practice.

She utilizes drawing, sculpture, pinhole photography and more recently site-specific photographic installations to explore our perception of space and place. Walking is a central part of her practice and an important element of the process by which she makes work.

Formerly a teacher, she retrained as an artist, graduating with a distinction in an 'MA by Project in Fine Art'.
Her final MA project 'The Space of Place' looked at how pinhole photography could translate a phenomenological experience of space in non-urban place; in doing so it explored the relationship between time and photographic process and approached photography as both a visual and physical construct.

Helen is an associate graduate member of the research group LAND2 and a member of the ‘Place’ Reading Group at the University of the West of England.
Details of her M.A project can be found on the project page at-
http://www.land2.uwe.ac.uk/projects.htm  
An overview of her current practice can also be found on the LAND2 website-
http://www.land2.uwe.ac.uk/burgess.htm

Helen works from her studio in Bristol on private commissions and larger scale projects. She continues to draw on her experience as a teacher and combines this with her current art practice to work in schools providing sculpture workshops to both GCSE and A level students.