Helena Sinclair

Hello there.

I am an emerging ceramic artist practicing in Melbourne, Victoria.

I like to explore a range of ideas within my studio practice. My functional work I think of as blank canvases that I can hand paint illustrative designs on to and that you can eat off! I like to experiment with sculpture particularly with quirky, curvey vessels as well as sculpting representational and realistic forms.  The common thread that weaves through my work there is more often than (k)not some type of cheeky humour, weird quirkiness or word play while incorporating colour and femininity.

Conceptually I like to explore my place within the world, ideas about feminism and the body as well as societal ideals about beauty. My most recent series of work has been to investigate abject materials that have been removed from the body and re-contextualised through ceramic sculpture.

CV

Exhibitions

• Manly Art Gallery Express Yourself 2011

• Manly Library Self Portrait Series 2012

• RMIT City Campus group exhibition Mobjects 2017

• Gertrude Contemporary - WNTR Collective Became; Becoming; Becomes 2017

• Craft Cubed Around the Table 2017

• Old Melbourne Gaol Closure pop-up exhibition 18th of September 2018

• RMIT Graduate Exhibition 20th of November 2018

• Wandering Room Tiny World Reunion March 2019

• First Site Gallery Semiotics May 2019

• Wandering Room Victoria Street, Victoria September 2019

• RMIT Honours Graduate Exhibition Material becoming the body, the body becoming material December 2019

• Counihan Gallery Language and Liberty 2020

Awards and Achievements

2020 Finalist for the Moreland Summer Show at Counihan Gallery Language and Liberty

Lena and Ruby / co-owner
2017 to present 
Ruby and I have worked together to set up a small business designing and making hand made functional and wearable products. Ruby works with ethically sourced fibre (predominantly linen and coconut husk) while I work with clay and we create products that incorporate both mediums. 
lenaandrubyshop@gmail.com | Instagram | Facebook

Plum Diary / featured artist
22nd July 2017
Online blog by Shari Ward selected me as the featured artist of the month and published a short biography of my series of ceramic works in ‘Women with Words’. Read the piece here.

Education

• RMIT Honours

• RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) Ceramic Object Based Practice 2019

• Pittwater High School NSW - High School Certificate 2010