helena hines - painting and installation
Statement
Reach End (where ideas change)
Mixed Media Installation
3000 plastic document pockets spill in an archival wave from a great battered locker, the wave dredging and heaping sediment up at its reach end.
My interaction with channel coast observatory scientists has occurred in waves, with apparently quiet interludes, and this pattern generated interest in the way the energy of ideas travels with a profound capacity to alter understanding during a process of collaboration.
A wave is an extremely efficient form of energy transfer. It may have travelled as much as 3000 miles across the ocean, retaining much of its energy. When waves approach the coast, shallower depth affects their behaviour, and they crash up onto the edge of the land. As they do so they pick up sediment, shifting shingle and sands, often dramatically.
Channel coast observatory scientists regularly survey the beaches, using GPS equipment to track 3-d beach profiles, watching how the sea endlessly reshapes the edge of the land. They monitor and interpret constant streams of data pouring in from wave buoys situated out at sea. This information helps shape coastal management and strategies of intervention. The edge of the land exists in a continuum of change, as subject to flux as our thinking.
bio
MA Fine Arts (Collaborative) University College, Chichester 2006
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art 1984
Solo shows: Havant Arts Centre 2005 77 Cross Street London 2003
Exhibitions: Laing, Beaux Arts Bath, Queen Street Gallery Emsworth, Otter Gallery, Chichester Open, Portsmouth Biennale Prizewinner, Millennium Award MIND Residency Eastleigh College 2000.
Helena co-directs Artel and runs Bishops Waltham Art Workshops. See the student collaboration, Waves Breaking Again and Again at The Ashcroft Centre, Fareham www.ashcroft.org.uk 19 May - 25 June 2007
