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Helen Dearnley - Fine Artist 

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"Blackbird" is the artists' signature.

Blackbird works in a diverse range of mediums, exploring many issues within her work as both fine artist and illustrator.

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"The imaginary was the alibi of the real, in a world dominated by the reality principle. And, paradoxically, it is the real that has become our true utopia - but a utopia that is no longer in the realm of the possible, that can only be dreamt of as one would dream of a lost object." - Jean Baudrillard.

 

Helen studied a joint honours degree in fine art & illustration at the University of Lincoln, and continues her practice based in the city as an international artist and illustrator.

 

 

“Artists-as-Artists value themselves for what they have gotten rid of and what they refuse to do” – Ad Reinhardt, How Art Made Pop (And Pop Became Art), Mike Roberts, 2018, Tate Publishing.

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Left: Self Portrait With Morten Harket 2010

Education 

Awards 

2005 - 2008

BA (hons) Fine Art & Illustration University Of Lincoln

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2009

2021

Enterprise @ Lincoln

Business Revival Grant, City Of Lincoln Council

2023

SANE Creative Award Scheme

Exhibitions 

2023   

Lost Dreams, St Mary Le Wigford Church, Lincoln

2011

How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Alley Cafe, Nottingham

2008

This Is It, the University of Lincoln Fine Art Degree Show 2008 – The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe

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2022, 2023

2021

Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate

2019

Laydeez Do Comics Awards Weekend, London

2016

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Helen NEVER works for free, or exhibits work for free, as she is attracting prosperity, and rejecting austerity.

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