Helen O’Hara will be the first artist in residence (AIR) at the Veranda Studio, Midland Junction Art Centre from 10/08/22 to 20/08/22. The studio will be open during gallery hours
www.midlandjunctionartscentre.com.au
276 Great Eastern Highway Midland Western Australia 6056
T: 08 9250 8062 | info@midlandjunctionartscentre.com.au
Open Wed – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 3pm during exhibitions | Closed Sun – Tue & Public Holidays
Helen O’Hara is a mixed-media, textile artist and art educator living in Western Australia. Helen is mostly self-taught although she trained as a primary school art teacher before emigrating from the United Kingdom to Australia.
She loves combining materials and techniques and re-purposing objects, materials and tools in new ways unimagined by their manufacturers. Helen’s art often combines printing of many types with drawing, collage and stitch.
Themes include nature, geology, cosmology and architecture represented in abstract ways. Helen also enjoys art journaling as a kind of everyday therapy.
She is a real collector and hoarder of art materials and scraps and has named her blog “The Hoarders Art Room” after this trait.
Helen plans to use her time in the studios to make some Gelli printed fabrics combined with lino cuts and other block printing and stencils.
“I want to make a quilt which I have the working title “If Klimt Was A Quilter”. I’m planning to make lots of patterned fabric in the style of Gustav Klimt and see where it goes from there. Maybe combining with portraits like in his “Mother and Child” or perhaps using the printed fabrics in an improvisational style, cutting and chopping them to make something like Klimt’s “Knight” which is part of the “Stoclet Frieze”.
https://thehoardersartroom.com/
stitched and bound 