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Helen Bendon
Senior lecturer, module leader & BA Film, Video & Interactive Arts programme leader
Helen Bendon is a UK based artist working predominantly in video and photography. Helen’s work was selected for New Contemporaries in 1998 and since then she has been exhibiting internationally (inc. Yvon Lambert, Paris, Kari Kenetti, Helsinki and the Centre for Photographie in Geneva). Her films and video works have also been shown at international festivals and screening events including the Commonwealth Film Festival, the Lux and the international Film Festival 700IS, Iceland, in which her film The Pack was shortlisted for the ´Alcoa´ prize.
In 2001 she won the coveted Fondation CCF pour la Photographie Prize and her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Arts Council of England and the Fouds National D’Art Contemporian, France. In 2005 Helen was awarded The Conversation Gap Award commissioned by Career Innovation (Ci), and is now working on narrative based projects with some of the world’s leading businesses. Working in these varied contexts, her practice is anchored around intimate narratives – often understated or tacitly conveyed, and the visual exploration of the relationship between actual and psychological space.