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Helen Tranckle

Artist's Profile

Helen graduated at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design University College in Farnham, (now UCA) with Fine Art BA Hons and then went on to The University of Reading in 2008,  to gain a PG Diploma, ‘The Body and Representation'. 

For the last four years Helen’s work has been grounded in printmaking at South Hill Park (SHP) in Bracknell however, she is now extending this into digital and mixed media, and attends the Digital Media Centre at SHP.

After moving home many times within Berkshire Helen has now settled in North Devon with her husband, Tony and youngest daughter, Emily.  Her work draws upon the experience of displacement as the basis of understanding the idea of belonging. Gaston Bachelard’s ‘The Poetics of Space’ is a very important reference for her work, which examines the latent significance of intimate spaces.  She has exhibited in the UK and internationally.  

Exhibitions

2010 The Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe, Solo Exhibition, 13/09/102010

2010 Print Box set, SHP, Bracknell, (V&A Print collection)

2010 Gallery@360, Filliegh, Devon 11 June - 04 July

2010 Shamal Creative Wind, Villa Desio, Monza, Patronage of the town of Desio, Italy,, 05/06/10

2010 LES CHEVEUX ELECTRIQUES, Primo Piano Living Gallery, Lecce, Italy, 08/05/10

2010 Contemporary Female Mythologies, Primo Piano Living Gallery, Lecce, Italy, 07/03/10

2010 New Year New Work Exhibition, Broomhill Art Hotel
 

2009 Student Open SHP, Berkshire

2008 Mansion Space & Print Exhibition, SHP, Berkshire

2008 'Square Picture' Exhibition Broomhill, North Devon

2007 Group Exhibition SHP, Berkshire

2006 Group Exhibition, SHP, Berkshire

Work held in V&A Photographic Collection

2005 Group Exhibition, Wellington College, Crowthorne

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Artist's Statement

‘as animals we have bodies connected to the natural world, such that our consciousness and rationality are tied to our bodily orientations and interactions in and with our environment. Our embodiment is essential to who we are, and to what meaning is, and to our ability to draw rational inferences and be creative’ Mark Johnson, The Body in the Mind, Uni Chicago Press 1987

The subject of ‘belonging’ and ‘place’ has become very important to me. The places we inhabit often grow to be personalised by our own thoughts and memories – they are no longer the new inert space we first walk into but become fixed in our minds as somewhere which reveals part of ourselves - our own internal conscious world. The subject of place is evocative and often reveals a deluge of reflection, like the smell of a scent redolent of a memory. Our experience of home and its texture of refuge instil a sense of belonging and within its corners we find some insight into who we’ve been and how this shapes our life.

On the flipside the discomfort of displacement, where there is no place to grow, become acquainted with or connected to throws identity into confusion The constancy of moving from one place to another presents the difficulty of finding a physical space which represents the reassurance of belonging.  This instability, whether it is the inability to ‘fit in’ or find a place which becomes home, radically frustrates an innate desire to at least find an emotional shelter.

My long relationship with printmaking has developed into a mixed media style using text and digital imagery and endeavours to portray that which is arresting. The practice of working with different media together gives freedom to the overall piece so that the significance of that work rides above the constraint of material or one practical discipline and becomes thought provoking rather than purely a mimetic image.