Helen Dilkes, Fluidifying… exploded surface, internal boundary curve, 2021, audio copper wire, pigment, shellac (canvas), 300x 30 x 20mm. Photograph: Fred Kroh
Helen completed a PhD (Art), RMIT University, Melbourne, 2017, with supervisors in Gold and silversmithing (Emeritus Professor Robert Baines first three years, Adjunct Professor Kevin White for year four), and Architecture (Professor Jane Burry); holds an MFA, RMIT (Gold and silversmithing); MEd, University of Melbourne, and BMus, University of Western Australia.
Helen’s solo exhibitions include Geometries in time… slicing the cone, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North, 2022; and Time Concertinaed… a studio installation, online exhibition, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne contemporary jewellery and object biennial, 2021; Non-Euclidean transformations, beyond object, fluidifying, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, 2017; Non- Euclidean transformations: multiplicity in a contemporary art jewellery practice, School of Art Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2016.
Helen’s artistic work has been selected for group exhibitions locally and internationally, including ITAMI International Jewellery Exhibition, The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan, 2023, selectors IWATA Hiroki, KOSHIMIZU Susumu, SATO Michihiro, SEKI Akio, TODATE Kazuko, HIBINO Kodue, MIN Bogki , also for ITAMI exhibitions in 2019, and 2017; Re:ACTION, Budapest Jewelry Week exhibition 2023, selectors Veronika Fábián, Julia Maria Künnap, David Huycke, and PARADOX, 2022 selector Gijs Bakker; Dynamics of Air International Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; MasterMakers exhibition, Radiant Pavilion jewellery and object biennial, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2019; and Beijing International Jewelry Exhibition, China, 2017.