Helen Wilks (b.1950) studied fine art (painting) at Bath Academy of Art (1966-9) and at the University of Reading (1970-1). In 1995 she gained an MCGI in Fine Art.  During the winter of 05/06 she was a resident artist at the Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut. In 2007, The Inhabited Space panorama was exhibited at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA for the conference “New Perspectives on Panoramas” and in 2009 she will exhibit some new works at Latinarte in Madrid.  In 2008 she produced an artist book Figments with Pulcinoelefante Edizioni in Osnago, Italy.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Shows

• 1995 Wax: A painting in seven banners,  La  MétaphoreThéåtre National, Lille, France
• 1997/8 Childhood Fragments  Freud Museum, London
• 2007 The Inhabited Space  Yale Center for British Art, USA

(Forthcoming)

• 2009 Punch and Judy and Childhood Fragments, Latinarte, Madrid

Group Shows

• 1996 Childhood Remembered, Rye Art Gallery
• 1997 / 8 Oriel Theatr Clwyd,  North Wales 

Women on Men (touring  exhibition)

• 1999 Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
• 1999 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Hampshire
• 2000 Art First, London