FINE ART
Helen Dearnley (Blackbird) BA (hons) Fine Art & Illustration
An international fine artist with over 10 years postgraduate experience.
"Blackbird" is the artists' signature.
Blackbird works in a diverse range of mediums, exploring many issues within her work as a fine artist.
Helen studied a joint honours degree in Fine Art & Illustration at the University of Lincoln, and continues her practice as an international artist. Helen's Illustration practice is separate.
“Artists-as-Artists value themselves for what they have gotten rid of and what they refuse to do” – Ad Reinhardt, How Art Made Pop (And Pop Became Art), Mike Roberts, 2018, Tate Publishing.
Helen's work was part of the University of Lincoln Fine Art Degree Show 2008 "This Is It".
She has continued to develop a multidisciplinary practice, with the AA2A scheme residency developing animation, exhibition reviews, international travel and exhibition, and following graduation, she set up Lincoln Artists' Network with funding from Enterprise @ Lincoln, which she ran as director until 2017.
Helen is an anti AI artist, and does not use AI at any point in her practice. No permission is granted for AI to be trained on Helen's work.
To keep up to date on Helen's current projects, follow her blog.
For Helen's Illustration and Design practice, go to her Illustration Page here.
Original photo from Monaco, 1995, in the style of Pushwagner for a future painting.
Limited Edition Peace Paintings. White Poppies for peace - Papaver Somniferum grown in Lincolnshire for the pharmaceutical industry, with boys from the bombed ruins of Aleppo, Syria, mapped onto the landscape.
Current work
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Previous Work
Since graduating in 2008, Helen has worked as an international fine artist, with collaborative work with Magne Furuholmen and Apparatjik, and other projects.
German artist and fellow A-ha fan Annette Schwindt interviewed Helen here.
In the interview, Helen explains how austerity, arts funding cuts, Brexit, and the care crisis has affected her work.
Commissions
Helen is available for commissions!
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She has a particular interest in requests for A-ha Take On Me style portraits for fans, but also custom converse, Steampunk portraits, corporate artwork, artwork for hotel lobbies, yachts, sound art commissions, and mural artwork.
