About

Helen Stark is an emerging artist living and working on Ngunnawal land (Canberra) Australia. Her practice explores the interconnectedness of nature, humanity, and the universe. She graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the Australian National University School of Art and Design in 2022. Since graduating she has participated in many group exhibitions across Australia. In 2022 Stark won the Australian National Capital Artists Emerging Artist Support Scheme Exhibition Award. In 2024, she was awarded Emerging Artist Prize Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass in the U.S.A.

Her work responds to the natural world as she explores fragility, the passage of time, and the cycles of birth and death and recreation.


Curriculum vitae

Helen Stark

Email: helenstarkglass@gmail.com


Education

2022, Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra, Australia.

 

Awards 

2022, ANU School of Art and Design Emerging Artist Support Scheme (EASS) Exhibition Award.

2024, Tg :Transitions in Glass  U.S.A., Finalist and Emerging Artist Award Winner.

 

Group Exhibitions

2022, ANU School of Art and Design Graduate Exhibition (Visual Arts Honours), ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, A.C.T.

2023, Feb 3-5, Ausglass Members Exhibition, ACU Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.

2023, May 27-June 4, Finalist, Sculpture for Clyde, Batemans Bay, N.S.W.

2023, Nov 3 – Dec 9, Craft and Design A.C.T. Annual Selected Members Exhibition.

2024, June 15 -30, Finalist, Bowral Sculpture Prize, Bowal, N.S.W.

2024, May 31- 2025, Jan 5, Tg :Transitions in Glass, Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington, U.S.A.

2025, February - April, Bullseye Projects exhibition space, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

 

Solo Exhibition

2023, Feb 22- Mar 5 ANCA gallery, Dickson A.C.T.

 

Professional Development

2023, Feb 3-5. Ausglass Conference, Melbourne, Vic.

2024, November- Glass Painting Residency, Italy.

 

Publications

2023 Feb. 25th,Canberra Times, Panorama, pg.4, “Exploring earth’s natural cycles”, by Ron Cerabona.

 

Professional memberships

Ausglass member.

Craft A.CT. member