CV

Helen Saunders

Born Derby, England, 1986.

Education

2005- 2008 Loughborough School of Art and Design, First class BA (hons) Fine Art. .

Exhibitions

2011 'The National Open Art Competition' (Heart of England Prize) , The Minerva Theatre, Chichester 10-29

December

2011 'Constructed Cities, Constructed Landscapes' Solo Exhibition, LCB Depot, Leicester, 2 - 18 August

2011 'Banality and Big Questions' Not Lost Festival, Nottingham, 1- 16 July

2011 'Constructed Cities, Constructed Landscapes' Solo Exhibition, Phoenix Square, Leicester, 09- 31st May

2011 'Cities' Solo Exhibition, South Bank Art Centre, Bedford College, Bedford, 14 January - 18 February

2011 'Carto- Graph' Brass Gallery, Leeds, 13 January - 7 March

2011 'The Wheel Turns' Embrace Arts at The Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester, 8 January -25 February

2010 'Open 22' The City Gallery, Leicester, 13 November- 9 January

2010 'Constructed Landscapes' solo exhibition, Brass Gallery, Leeds, 6 October- 7 December

2010 'Lines of Desire' Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, Wales 28 August- 03 November

2010 '101 Allegories to represent the world' Primo Piano Livingallery, Lecce, Italy 26 June- 13 August

2010 'Worcester Open 2010' Worcester Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester, 24 April- 26 June

2010 'Model Citizen', Catmose Gallery, Leicestershire, 26 February- 31 March

2009-10 Derby City Open Exhibition, (prize) Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, 24October- 10 January

2009 20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London, 16- 20 September

2009 New Realities, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, 13 August- 5 September

2009 DLA Piper Art Award (Finalist), Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, 22 May- 13 June

2009 Vanilla Galleries Exhibition, Orange Tree, Loughborough, May- november

2008 Who are we? Who am I? Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent 26 July- 9 August

Commissions

2011 'Route Histories' A sixty metre long piece exploring the riverside of Leicester commissioned by Leicester City

Council.

2010 'Belgrave Mela Collage' a piece commissioned to celebrate the Belgrave Mela in Leicester.

2010 'Edgelands' Constructed Landscape 3 used as the front cover on a book by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons

Roberts to be published February 2011.

2010 'Vinyls Commission' commissioned by Leicester City Council for the 'Leicester Art Walk'.

2010 'Vistas, Values and Voices Commission ' Developing two pieces of work in response to the changing

environment of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire. Using the collaborative creation of a photo- collage, with the

local community to engage them with their area. Commissioned by Greenclose Studio. 5 January- 1 June

2009 'Loughborough Refocused' a public art work comissioned by Astra Zeneca. A photo-montage based on re-

configuring the landscape of Loughborough.

2009 'Refocused' Two collaborative projects involving workshops with school children to produce photomontages.

Projects and workshops

2012 Highfields School, Wolverhampton. Creative Practitioner on 'The Dandelion Project.' 4 Jan - 28 March.

2011 Phoenix Square, Leicester. Course of photoshop photo-collage workshops 25 May - 15 June.

2011 Cardiff University, School of Architecture.Artist talk 13 May.

2011 Burton College. Artist talk, 23 March.

2011 Bedford College. Artist talk and teaching photoshop techniques to HND students 20 January.

201-11 COMBINE: Rural Life from an Urban Perspective. A project with Junction Arts, Derbyshire. Bringing urban and

rural communities together to explore and celebrate our farming heritage. Working with students from a local school

in collaboration with a story-teller to express their findings as a photo- story.

2010 Photo- Skills workshops. Inter-Action MK, Milton Keynes. A course teaching photography and digital collage

techniques, 18 September - 16 October

2009-10 Artist Access to Arts programme, Loughborough University School of Art and Design. 9 October- 10

September

2009 Lightseekers project, Leicester. A group set up by Helen Saunders and Kajal Nisha Patel, to promote

phography to young people, through a series of photography workshops based at community centres. The

workshops include studio photography techniques, digital photography, digital manipulation, and darkroom skills.

2009 Surestart project, Leicestershire, 7 - 14 March. Working as part of a team of creative practitioners providing

activities to attract families to the surestart programme.

Publications

2011 'Photo manipulation' Digital Photographer, Issue 110

2011 'Altered Images' Design Week, 21 April

2010 'Bleak Reflections' Design Week, 30 September