Helen works across a variety of media including performance, fashion, film, art happenings, internet projects and graphics. She is interested in the passage between theory and practice. In particular how our body and its cultural historical, political and social context form us. Her focus for using a range of media is the relationships that can be developed across disciplines and knowledge and the subsequent potential for making exciting new connections.

What interests her is how art can work in a wide social canvas as cultural form that emerges from social relationships. A part of her process when making work is to engage with spontaneous inventiveness as structure and her work often experiments with notions of gender, identity, and the separations between the private and the social. She is particularly interested in how film projects a non-human view and allows a collective vision beyond subjectivity a view that flows through our body before it is rationalized. Her current net based project The Society of Xtras explores notions of individualism, and collective experience.

In 1986 Helen completed a BA at Auckland University where she studied History. She worked for the New Zealand Social Services until she moved to the UK in 1991.She has been practising visual artist for ten years. As well as developing the practical side of her work, Helen recently completed a Masters Degree in Contemporary Critical Art at Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London.