Helen lives and works on Jagera and Turrbal country. She acknowledges their lands were stolen, and sovereignty was never ceded.

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Helen is an interdisciplinary visual artist, whose work is most often realised through installation. Engaged with material agencies she works with audio, stop motion animation, welded and cast forms, found and discarded materials, and expanded drawing. Studio processes and field methodologies foreground the vital agencies of other-than-human worlds, in an interrogation of what it means to be living in a colonised country and in “the age of humans”.

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With these concerns in mind, her practice has two approaches. One approach is ecocritical commentary which particularly favours tones of irreverence, absurdity and playfulness to talk about serious environmental/climate matters.

The second focus is on the Yimbaya Maranoa Arts Collective. Initiated in 2018, and based on the Maranoa River (Queensland), Yimbaya is a First Nations led immersive arts project engaging Gunggari and Maranoa region artists and creatives, and visiting artists.

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Residencies are located where sites of significance to the Gunggari participants intersect with the route taken by surveyor-general Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, who in 1846 meticulously and extensively diarised his experiences.

The project's outcomes have formed a series of exhibitions, workshops, symposium presentations, collaborative actions, and community engagements. A steadily accumulating digital and material archive platforms stories and perspectives less visible and heard, moving towards a decolonisation of Maranoa cartographies. Critically, the project has a relational ethos, holding space for deep listening, inter-cultural exchange, the reparative and the regenerative.

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​Helen has shown work at BLINDSIDE (Naarm), Sydney University, the Old Lockup ARI Sunshine Coast, and Meanjin’s STABLE, Redland Art Gallery, Springhill Reservoir, House Conspiracy, and the POP, Webb, Grey Street, and Project Galleries, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

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She has a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) Queensland College of Art (2022).