about helen
Helen Weston is a British born artist, designer and educator. Her artistic practice tracks a path through fine art, craft and design. She has been producing sculptural objects, bespoke floor designs and teaching Constructed Textiles to undergraduate and post graduate students for nearly two decades. Currently a professional member of Crafts Ontario and previously a member of two UK based professional artistic groups: The 62 Group of Textile Artists and the Newlyn Society of Artists. She has exhibited extensively in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Holland, and Japan. Her work has been included in various print publications (‘Radical Threads’,’ Textile Perspectives in Mixed Media Sculpture’) and numerous catalogues as well as online magazines. Most recently her sculptural work has featured in an E-book; ‘Textiles Re:Imagined’. She holds an MA Art Policy and Management from Birkbeck College, University of London (UK), MA Textile Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK) and a BA (Hons) in Industrial Textile Design from The Scottish College of Textiles (SCOT) - Heriot Watt University (UK). She is based in Toronto, relocating from London, England in 2015.
selected exhibitions
2016 (Oct) Forth coming: The World of Threads Festival, Oakville, Toronto, Canada.
2014 Musings Two person show, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2013/14 British Textile Art Exhibition 62@50, koyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Package Tour at The Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Dublin, Harrogate
2012 62@50 – Selected group work, Dover Gallery, Farfield Mill, Sedburgh, Cumbria
2012 62@50 - 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
2012 Dulwich Festival - Open Studio Event, Dulwich, London, UK
2010 Bending More Lines Rijswijk Museum, Rijswijk, Holland
2009 Bending the Line Hub National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, UK
2008 Size Matters Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, Kent. UK
2008 Ludlow Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art Ludlow College, Shropshire, UK
2008 Stuff Catmose Gallery, Oakham Rutland. UK
2007 Archiving the Present Collecting the Future Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles (CHRRCT). Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2006 Tracing Threads Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove, UK
2005 Drawing Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK
2004 Of Material Concern Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
2003 Material Spaces Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
2003 Material Matters The Living Gallery, West Midlands, UK
2003 Constructed Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
2002 Body Art Henshaws Art and Crafts Centre, North Yorkshire, UK
2001 Nineplusnine – part one; interior The Spitz Gallery, London, UK
2000 Waves: Fifty Years of Textiles at Goldsmiths Part of ‘The Knitting and Stitching Show’ Touring; Alexandra Palace, London UK, RDS, Dublin. IRE. International Halls, Harrogate, UK
1999 Fibre Art Black Swan Guild, Centre for contemporary Arts and Crafts, Frome, Somerset, UK
1999 Frozen Fracture Lewisham Art House, London, UK
