HELEN DILKES

ITAMI INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY EXHIBITION, 2023, The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI, Hyogo, Japan

Selectors IWATA Hiroki, KOSHIMIZU Susumu, SATO Michihiro, SEKI Akio, TODATE Kazuko, HIBINO Kodue, MIN Bogki

Re:ACTION, Budapest Jewelry Week 2023, International exhibition, Hybridart Space, Budapest, Hungary

Selectors Veronika Fábián, Julia Maria Künnap, David Huycke,

PARADOX, Budapest Jewelry Week 2022, International exhibition, Hybridart Space, Budapest, Hungary

Selector Gijs Bakker

Geometries in time… slicing the cone 2022

Here, above via a link to YouTube, you will see an informal video walk through of Geometries in time… slicing the cone Exhibition, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North, Melbourne, Australia, Feb-March 2022. You will hear ambient sound inside gallery 3, then ambient sound plus my sound composition/performance in gallery 4 with my ceiling-suspended work Fluidifying… exploding body, event in the making.

Geometries in time… slicing the cone 2022

In the exhibition Geometries in time… slicing the cone Helen Dilkes’ work explores notions of the exploding of our earth’s atmosphere. The elliptic geometry in Helen’s artworks gives a sense of slices in time in a controlled exploding of a continuous surface-form. The works make explicit the ellipse at the heart of all her thinking. The exhibition artworks are an extension of the forms and concepts of Helen’s recent exhibitions, and with the more local focus that these particular times afford or even demand of us, her new works utilise only concepts/things/materials that were close to hand at the time of making.

Below is an overview of Time concertinaed… , which is a part of my larger exhibition that has been rescheduled due to Melbourne’s Covid19 lockdowns, for Mid-February 2022 at Red Gallery, Fitzroy North.

RADIANT PAVILION Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial

4 - 12 September 2021

Time concertinaed…

In Time concertinaed… we look at and slow down notions of the exploding of our earth’s atmosphere.

I show you an arcing trajectory of my practice where slices in time with elliptic geometry give a sense of controlled exploding of a continuous surface-form.

This exhibition was installed in my studio, in lieu of my gallery exhibition which was postponed due to Melbourne’s coronavirus lockdowns. Images are my informal studio shots. The detail of each piece was able to be viewed digitally, here, during Radiant Pavilion, September 2021.

Here you see my Fluidifying… exploding body, event in the making, 2018, iridescent foil, acrylic, 999 silver, 925 silver, 440 x 440 x 380mm, that provides the pivot and springboard for, and combines with the seven canvas and copper audio wire pieces for this exhibition Time concertinaed… . In Time concertinaed … I reference the sonic component from Fluidifying’s first gallery appearance in ‘Dynamics of Air’ international exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2018.

MasterMakers EXHIBITION, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2019

Informal photographs of the two works of mine in the MasterMakers exhibition, RMIT Gallery, 2019, and of the RMIT gallery exhibition context.

Expanding on my self-intersecting surface research, these works juxtapose machine-made/hand-made, rapid/slow, surface/form-boundedness, additive/subtractive manufacture….

2019 ITAMI INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY EXHIBITION,

The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI, Hyogo, Japan

These two works, from a small body of transparent pieces developing the intersecting surface idea, were selected for the prestigious Itami International Jewellery Exhibition in Japan, 2019. I use processes of additive manufacture, and hand weaving on a Japanese loom for the spiralling silk and linen cord. This spiralling mirrors the spiralling in 2d and 3d in my drawing during the process of generating the work.

Dynamics of Air International Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, 2018

EXHIBITION ARTWORK

I was invited to be part of this exhibition by my PhD supervisor, 2012–2017, Professor Jane Burry. My work has two components: an actual object, and a sound composition. I am proposing that people look beyond the shiny object in a sense, to experience a sort of to and fro between listening and seeing. To contemplate notions of an/our exploding atmosphere. I was very happy to be involved in this exhibition of works from local and international artists.

2017 ITAMI INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY EXHIBITION,

The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI, Hyogo, Japan

Riemann surface… pinker, bluer, greener, 2017

These three works Riemann surface… pinker, bluer, greener, were selected for the 2017 ITAMI International Jewellery Exhibition, in Itami, Japan. I was very happy to be part of this prestigious and well respected exhibition. These are a development of my self-intersecting form idea, and more. They are not just blocky, solid chunks, they are subtle hollow forms. I am proposing that the viewer/wearer look beyond the object, to process and experience, to spatial and temporal, and to the lovely geometries of their conception and making. Are these examples of 3d printing (so-called) – actually additive manufacturing, and if so, how does my use of this particular technology on this occasion, matter?

ART JEWELLERY WORK

This is a group of five earrings that went to Galerie Marzee in The Netherlands. Some of these were included in my solo exhibition at Brunswick Street Gallery in September, 2017. These are part of a series of limited edition jewellery works I will be producing over time. These self-intersecting surfaces are part of a larger body of work exploring notions of temporal-spatial continuum, and combining machine with hand making processes.

Non-Euclidean transformations, beyond object, fluidifying... 2017

GALLERY EXHIBITION

This is the flyer from my solo exhibition featuring work from my PD studies with newly developed work this year, 2017. This exhibition was part of the Radiant Pavilion: Melbourne contemporary jewellery and object biennial.

Non-Euclidean transformations: multiplicity in a contemporary jewellery artist practice

PhD EXAMINATION EXHIBITION 2016

My practice-based PhD research project culminated in my examination exhibition and submitted dissertation. The dissertation which contains images from the examination exhibition is available on the RMIT University, Melbourne 'Digital repository'.

AT GALERIE MARZEE, 2016

Aluminium Riemann

Self-intersecting form with hole... Birch

These two works, Aluminium Riemann and Self-intersecting form with hole... Birch (images above), were selected, along with the work of other RMIT, Melbourne, Postgraduate research students, to be part of the 30th Marzee international Graduate Show, Nijmegen, Netherlands, in 2016. With a cord passed through (ie. 22kt gold wire, or camouflage rope) I speculate on wearability, or propose that these works can become wearable.

DIANA MORGAN SUBMISSION, 2016

Unity/multiplicity, Triangulating Riemann surface

These 3 works were selected to be included in the Diana Morgan Postgraduate and Honours Gold & Silversmithing Prize, exhibition for the judging panel in the RMIT School of Art Gallery. Produced across several years of my PhD studies, these works show the development of my thinking-working processes.

What's going on here?

RADIANT PAVILION 2015

What's going on here? was part of the inaugural Melbourne contemporary jewellery and object trail that took place in spaces across inner city Melbourne in 2015. One of my objects is concealed within the ply cylinder, also made by me. This work was installed in an outdoor environment to in a sense complicate sensory experience. Visitors to the Alumni Courtyard were invited to explore with the molecularity of their senses. Attention was drawn to the immediate tactility of the concealed piece, while there were also the pushes and pulls from the broader situation of the work. In a sense attention is drawn from the molecular to the molar, from the detail of sensory data to the molar of some interpretive regime one brings to the event. Attention is drawn to the drawing of attention.

VICTORIAN CRAFT AWARD 2015

This work was selected to be included in the Victorian Craft Award, and received a 'Director's Choice' commendation.

Generating and transforming

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION, Birmingham, UK, 2014

This is a screenshot image from my conference presentation Generating and transforming at CFAR-BIAD, in 2014. It is a composite image from the presentation, where I ‘array’ the blue foam work around a ‘curve’ (using Rhinoceros computer software 3d drawing technology terminology) to speculate on wearability.

AZIMUTH EXHIBITION 2014

The exhibition Azimuth involved the work of a group of postgraduate students from the School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne. Curated by fellow student Ruby Aitchison, this group show drew on the idea of azimuth, and notions of multiple perspectives of viewing or experiencing artwork in the art jewellery sphere.

White Night, Melbourne, 2014

EXHIBITION

This work Multiplicity… discrete and continuous is a 100-frame animation of an object, my Riemann surface work, animated to perform differently to two previous iterations of the animation. It was projected in two locations at RMIT University during White Night, Melbourne, February 2014. One was a human-sized screen at ground level on the side of a building in the projection courtyard where it measured 2 x 2 metres. The other (see image to the left) was projected onto a 3-story brick wall in Rodda lane courtyard, about 10 metres above ground level, where it measured approximately 8 x 6 metres (width x height). These two works were each on a 10-minute loop and shared screen time with other artists’ works, of a similar duration. My piece was seen every ninety minutes throughout the night, between 7.00pm and 7.00am the following morning, in two locations at RMIT University, Melbourne at this festival. The White Night event presented dramatically new outdoor environments for my work. This transformed the appearance and performance of the piece, and the nature of the experience for participants.

It’s got legs

EXHIBITION, 2012

This work was selected to be included in the 2012 It's Got Legs, Gold and Silversmithing Postgraduate and Alumni Award Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne.

Conic slice... ellipses construct cone, cone implied, installation

MFA GRADUATE EXHIBITION, 2010

This is an image of one of my works Conic slice… ellipses construct cone… cone implied, an installation in black selective laser sintered (SLS) nylon, from the MFA exhibition Duration... recollection,.

CONTEMPORARY WEARABLES 2011

EXHIBITION

This work, produced during my MFA studies in 2010 was selected for the Contemporary wearables, Biennial Jewellery Award and Exhibition, in Tawoomba, 2011.

Duration… recollection, 2010, cone with plinth, ring, 999 silver, watercolour card, polaroid residue, inkjet photograph, acrylic, 115 x 100 x 45mm. Photograph: Jeremy Dillon

It’s got legs, 2009

EXHIBITION

This is a close up image of a work from my Cone studies series. These works were selected to be included in the 2009 It's Got Legs, Gold and Silversmithing Postgraduate and Alumni Award Exhibition, RMIT Melbourne.