Helen Britton: The Story So Far
Fri, 02 Oct
|South East Centre for Contemporary Art
Helen is a multidisciplinary Australian artist based in Munich, Germany. Her practice includes jewellery, sculpture, drawings, stencils and installations, and is informed by popular culture, threatened traditions, environmental destruction and human anxiety.
Time & Location
02 Oct 2026, 10:00 am – 21 Nov 2026, 5:00 pm
South East Centre for Contemporary Art, Zingel Pl, Bega NSW 2550, Australia
About the Event
Helen Britton: The Story So Far
Helen Britton is the tenth artist to be named as a Living Treasure: Master of Australian Craft, an initiative of the Australian Design Centre that aims to celebrate the achievements of Australia’s most iconic crafts practitioners through a touring exhibition and a major monograph publication. Helen is a multidisciplinary Australian artist based in Munich, Germany. Her practice includes jewellery, sculpture, drawings, stencils and installations, and is informed by popular culture, threatened traditions, environmental destruction and human anxiety.
Between 2017 and 2019 Helen travelled three times to Australia to document the house of her great Aunt and Godmother Kath Carr on the Clarence river (Ngunitiji, Yaegl Country). Kath taught Helen how to make collages with pressed Australian flowers that she had collected, or with metal fillings from the lathe in the shed, to paint on porcelain which was her greatest hobby, and to make jewellery.…
