Helen Petts CV
education _______________________________________________________________
1978 B.A. Humanities. Middlesex Polytechnic
1984 Post-graduate Diploma in Film Studies. University of Westminster
2002 B.A. Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory, Goldsmith's College, University of London
2004 M.A. Fine Art, Middlesex University
solo exhibitions ____________________________________________________________
2012 Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (commissioned film Throw Them Up and Let Them Sing following Kurt
Schwitters’ route of exile to Norway and Ambleside). Arts Council England award.
2012 Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal. Throw Them Up and Let Them Sing.
2013 Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art, Norway. Throw Them Up and Let Them Sing.
2014 Cafe Oto Project Space. Solo Soprano - a portrait of Lol Coxhill. ACE award.
selected group exhibitions, screenings and festivals _________________________________
2020-1 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Pictures of Health.
2019 Li Yuan-chia and Responses. Each Modern Gallery, Taipei.
2018 Manchester Art Gallery. Speech Acts, Commissioned film Space & Freedom. ACE award.
Arkipel Film Festival, Jakarta. Featured artist, sponsored by British Council.
2017 Oslo Cinemateket. Throw Them Up and Let Them Sing.
2015 Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London. Drawing Towards Sound.
2014 Whitechapel Gallery, London. The Voice and the Lens.
2013 Tate Britain. Throw Them Up and Let Them Sing. Screenings during 'Schwitters in Britain' .
Full of Noises Festival, Solo Soprano – a Portrait of Lol Coxhill (film commission), TUSK Festival,
CCA-Glasgow. ACE award.
2012 Royal Festival Hall, London. Throw Them Up and Let Them Sing. Unlimited Festival,
Zwei Tage Zeitung Festival, Zurich. Three Films with Phil Minton.
Icon Gallery, Birmingham - The Voice and the Lens.
2010 Matt's Gallery, TAPS - Improvisations with Paul Burwell.
Wysing Arts Centre. Be Glad for the Song Has No End.
Hannover Jazz Week. Dedicated evening of Petts' films of musicians.
2009 Il Gesto del Suono Music Film Festival in Bolzano, Italy. Three Films with singer Phil Minton.
teaching _____________________________________________________________________________
2018/9 Visiting artist Westminster University, University of Gloucestershire, Queen Mary College.
2013 Bergen Art Academy. Visiting lecturer post-graduate Fine Art programme.
2009 Kathmandu University Nepal. Visiting lecturer post-grad Ethnomusicology programme.
1980-90 Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Visiting lecturer.
Vauxhall College of F.E. Lecturer English and Communication. Run many video workshops.
2010-2 Mentor for Shape Arts to disabled artists, film-makers and screen writers.
press ___________________________________________________________________
Hammad Nasar. British Art Studies, May 2109. “Cumbrian Cosmopolitanisms”.
Ocula magazine, August 2018, interview with Hammad Nasar.
David Briers, Art Monthly October 2012 review of Hatton Gallery exhibition.
Clive Bell, The Wire August 2010. Julian Cowley, Subradar music magazine 2013.
Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure music magazine, Spring 2012.