ARTIST STATEMENT
Davison's practice occupies the moments where communication fails. By exploring live vocal sounds in conjunction with materials and in response to sites of architectural, ecological and socio-historic interest, they seek to share experiences of the queer(ed) body. They use the palpability of the voice and resonances of the body to find moments of connection outside of their self, with a desire to reach cathartic transformation by yielding to chaos and entanglement to find agency.
Helen has presented work nationally and internationally including: LATITUDES festival (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia); Parlour Geometrique, Chiswick House (London, UK; Middlesbrough Art Weekender (Middlesbrough, UK); ‘'till Time is Through, ]Performance s p a c e[ (Folkestone, UK); Revolve Festival, Uppsala Konstmuseum (Uppsala, Sweden) and has been commissioned to write text responses to live performance works for MEANDER, PAErsche, Köln, Germany, (re)collecting (f)ears, Selina Bonelli and Salvage Festival, ]Performance Space[ and Writing Bodies, Tentacular Magazine.
Helen is founding member of SITE (2018 - present): an initiative inviting performance artists to collaborate on site specific performances and actions. They are also an independent curator having initiated Flowing Through Selves (2018 - present): a platform for LGBTQAI+ performance artists and (im)possible performances (2021): an Arts Council funded project and online exhibition.
Education:
MA Fine Art: Performance, Royal College of Art (2015 - 2017)
BA Fine Art: New Media, Chelsea College of Art (2004 - 2007)
Exhibitions:
2021
(im)possible performances, online exhibition
Collaborative work with Ro Hardaker for This Feeling Might Manifest, The Tetley Leeds (Online Exhibition)
Encountering A New Normal, online exhibition and network for neurodiverse artists, curated by Alicia Radage
2019
Something Held in the Mouth, CUSTOM, Folkestone UK
We Shall Overcome, ]Performance Space[, Folkestone UK
LATITUDES, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2018
The Age of New Babylon, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
Front Room, Brick and Mortar Projects, Folkestone, UK
Parlour Geometrique, Chiswick House, London, UK
Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough, UK
F.A.R.M (Fine Art Rural Mission), Firle, UK
'till time is through, Performance Space, Folkestone, UK
Live Working, Royal College of Art, London, UK
flowing through selves, Safehouse 1, London, UK
Live to Camera, London, UK
GRAIN, The Factory, Folkestone, UK
2017
Standing Block, Lincoln Projects, London, UK
FOLLOW, Lychee 1, London, UK
Archiving Fever: Here I Am, There You Are, Battersea Square Gallery, London, UK
Archiving Fever, 100 Years Gallery, London, UK
s p i t t i n g Distance, Brewery Tap, Folkestone, UK
Show 2017, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Revolve Festival, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Five Minutes of Your Time, Testbed, London, UK
2016
Sound Beneath Earth (in collaboration with Fritz Faust), Dyson Performance Space, London, UK
Liberté d'Action, L'Amore, Paris, France
P.A.M., Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
Lime in Aid, Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK
Being-Doing, Asylum, London, UK
Revolve Festival, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden