HELEN SILVERLOCK

The Recycled House Studio
Camber
East Sussex TN31 7RB
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Helen Silverlock is an artist working in film, video, photography and site specific installation. She works in London and Sussex, has a studio at The Recycled House in Camber and is a member of South Coast Artists (SOCO). Helen also works on interior design, garden desigh and eco-renovation projects as part of Occupied Space Bankside. Previously she was a partner in Video Art Bankside, a production company working with artists, film makers and not-for-profit organisations.
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2010 “REFRACTION"
A site specific sculpture created from recycled wine bottles and green oak as part of the "Recycled House" eco renovation project in Camber, East Sussex.

2009 “CONCERTINA red:yellow:white"
Influenced by Josef Albers “Small Paintings” series and colour work, selected for the “Inspired by” exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2008 FLUXUS PERFORMANCES
Participated in a number of performances by Fluxus artists including Larry Miller, Robert Watts, George Maciunas and Yoko Ono during “The Long Weekend”, Tate Modern

2002 “OCCUPIED SPACE IV”
Video installation, projected images shot from digital camera flown from kite, Margate Rocks Thanet Contemporary Arts Festival, Margate

2001 “OCCUPIED SPACE III”
Video/slide installation, Canterbury Arts Festival

2001 “DEMOLITION”
Installation, tin bath, 16mm film, photographic prints, Johhny’s Arthouse, Whitstable

2000 “FRIDGE IV”
Installation, 4 domestic fridges, surveillance camera and monitor, video loop, Levi’s Jeans, beer bottles, Johnny’s Arthouse, Whitstable

2000 “OCCUPIED SPACE II”
Installation, two video projections shot from kite with original soundtrack, Canterbury Arts Festival Artists Open Houses

1999 “LOVE XVI image.sound.performance”
Live performance with multiple film and video projections, improvised live music, 291 Gallery, Hackney

1998 “EVERYONE’S A WINNER”
Site specific installation, animation/live action video loop, arcade crane, commission for Cap Gemini Imaginaria, ICA London

1997 “OCCUPIED SPACE I”
Installation, 72 b/w photographs on glass, scanned digital images, text, Hidden Art of Hackney, Broadway Market London

1997 “BUT I NEVER LOOKED LIKE THAT”
Installation, five colour photographs 4’x3’, video projection, b/w transparency, shown in “Renovate” show, Shoreditch Millennium Project

1996 “ARE YOU IN LOVE?”
Performance at Arts Club, Blacks, Soho, London.

1995 “RENEGADE DARKSIDE”
Installation, video, digitised images, surveillance camera, Kings Cross, London

1995 “DANGEROUS WHEN WET””
Curated show at Brockwell Lido, London: video, photographs and installation

1995 “IDIOT”
Collaboration/performance in adaptation of Konrad Bayer’s “Idiot”, by 30 Underwood Street Gallery, later shown at ICA London (1997)

1995 “FRIDGE I”
Installation (sound, covert camera installed in a fridge) in disused vicarage, London

1995 “LOVE X”
Installation, (24 plaster busts on plinths; split screen video projection with sound

1994 “LOVE IX”
Installation (projected 16mm film/video, Vandy Street, London

1994 “LOVE VIII”
Installation (photographic images on glass, 16mm film/video), shortlisted for BT New Contemporaries 1994, "NOISE" group show, Atlantis, London

1993 “LOVE VI: FRAGMENTS”
B/W 16mm films, Museum of Installation, Great Sutton Street, London

1993 “TIMEPIECE”
Live performance with Gary Stevens, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Commissions and projects (as a partner in Video Art Bankside)

2005/6 “PRIDE NOT PREJUDICE”
Commission for Southwark Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Network and the Law Centres Federation, exploring the impact of the 2003 Sexual Orientation Discrimination legislation, distributed nationally through Law Centres, Citizens Advice Bureaux and LGBT organisations

2004/5 “LILIAN BAYLIS JOURNEYS”
Collaborative project working with students at. LIlian Baylis Technology School in Lambeth, involving documentation of the journeys made by students from their countries of origin to London, exploring their experiences of integration in a strange culture. Students were introduced to techniques such as sound recording, lighting and blue screen shooting which were then developed within the media curriculum.

2003/4 “CROSSCUTS”
Commission for Canterbury City Council in collaboration with community groups, a series of video works for opening of new Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable including drama, animation and bluescreen projects and a choreographed fencing duel in Canterbury Cathedral.

2002 “FOCUS ON THE ARTS”
Arts and video workshops with students, Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford

1999 “DRUGS FROM THE INSIDE”
Drugs awareness video for schools, collaboration with prisoners at HMP Bullingdon, Trading Faces Theatre Company and VTOL Dance Company

1995 “RACHEL WHITEREAD: HOUSE”
Documentation - the making of Rachel Whiteread's "House", commissioned by Artangel, winner of 1st Prize at "Film+Arc Graz" in Austria