Helen Morse Palmer is a freelance artist. She devises and performs regularly with Station House Opera and is an Associate Member of the Live Art Garden Initiative. She has collaborated with John Deller to form the Lookoutpost Artists Group. Since 2008 she has worked part time as a Community Artist for Epping Forest District Council. Helen holds a first class honours degree in Fine Art from Reading University, and an M A in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. For a current C.V please look to the subheadings on your right.

'What lies between the arts is theatre.'

- Michael Fried

'We have tended to fall between two stools, between people who want to see theatre and people who want to see performance art without any wry self-consciousness.'

- Julian Maynard Smith, Station House Opera

Helen Morse Palmer explores the use of theatricality within art. Recognising key components of the theatre (costume, script, set, sound, music, movement, lighting and direction) she finds ways of applying these considerations to everyday life. Her work displaces established signifiers - the icon of the wedding dress, the red dot sold sticker on an artwork, the voice of the opera singer - to challenge or question the motives and structures of an event. Through a practice that flirts between live art, installation and the visual arts, Helen combines the act of making a moment with the natural moments which may be discovered or highlighted through the making of art.



Tear Catchers. Live Art/Sculpture. 2009.