Helen Anderson is a multidisciplinary artist who has been making and exhibiting since 1990. She received a BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1995, and has participated in over 20 group and solo exhibitions in and around Melbourne, Australia where she resides. Her work is held in several private collections. Her creative endeavours have been numerous and varied; they include running her own clothing label, teaching painting and photography, working with intellectually disabled artists and she was a founding and long time member of Melbourne artists collective DAMP. Her most recent works explore themes such as fear, darkness, and our bizarre relationship to the natural world, employing a variety of image sources and mediums.
“I am interested in the expectancy of the dark, as a metaphor for that which we cannot see; darkness as a veil which obscures vision and allows us to imagine what might occur. There is a moodiness here, a disquiet, an eeriness, a sense of foreboding. All manner of activities take place under the mask of night, things which would never occur in daylight. In this way the darkness becomes pregnant with unseen possibilities; it is in this way it activates our most primal fears. In these spaces the natural becomes unnatural or supernatural, senses become heightened and experience more saturated, more intense.”