Helen Marton
Mixed Media Artist
Publications & Research Outputs
2023 - Symposium: The Forms of Things Unknown: University of the Arts: Chelsea College of Arts, London
2018 - Textile & Place Symposium - Manchester School of Art
2017 - Making Futures: Plymouth College of Art: Procedures of Making Materials & Processes in Transformation.
Artefact Life History Framework; an ontology for archaeological reinterpretation.
2017 - Contrasts of the Bronze Age: Nordic Bronze Age Symposium, Oslo University, Norway
Paper: Nobody is Perfect: Contrasts in Craft – Succeed to Fail or Fail to Succeed
2016 - TAG 2016; Theoretical Archaeological Conference: Visualisation, Making in Practice
2016 - Ceramic Firing, Benedict Brierley: ISBN: 9781408185247 Bloomsbury Publishing
2015 - TAG 2015; Theoretical Archaeological Conference: The Mind of the Maker
2015 - NEBBARSS 2015: Newcastle University: Reinterpretation of Archaeology, Digital & Traditional Processes in Contemporary Craft Practice
2015 - Bronze Age Forum: Exeter University.A site-specific reinterpretation: a contemporary craft exploration of Bronze Age ceramic material using combined digital and traditional processes
2015 - The British Museum (Sackler Rooms) 'Art, Aesthetics and Function: Collaborative Approaches to Everyday Objects'
2014 - Royal Danish Academy School of Design Bornholm, Denmark.
Material Resonance & Site Specificity: European Ceramic Context: The Values of Matter & Making.
2013 - Magdalene College Cambridge:Creativity: An Exploration Through the Bronze Age and Contemporary Responses to the Bronze Age. Resonant Objects: Inextricable and Inevitable
2013 - University of Southampton: Ceramics Research Group of the Department of Archaeology,
The Resonance of Gabbroic Clay in Contemporary Ceramic Works.
Activities & Exhibitions
2017 - 4000 - Years in the Making – Royal Cornwall Museum – Solo show
2016 - Pressgang – The Art of Printmaking, Penwith Gallery, St.Ives, Cornwall
2016 - Exhibition of Works: RE-Making the past: 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Lincolnshire
2016 - Production of replica Gabbroic clay work: King Edward Tin Mine, Cornwall
2015 - Exhibition of Works: RE-Making the Past: Bilston Craft Gallery
2015 - Exhibition of Works: RE-Making the Past: Farnham Craft Study Centre
2015 - Exhibition of Works: RE-Making the Past: Devon Guild of Craftsmen.
2015 - Presentation: Mineral Landscapes: A Celebration of Science & Industry: Liskeard Museum
2015 - Enlightened Perspectives: An Exhibition Working Through Science & Art: Cambridge, St Johns
2014 - Presentation: Royal Geological Society of Cornwall: Lecture ‘An Exploration Through the Bronze Age & Contemporary Responses to the Bronze Age
2014 - Focus Upon: Solo Focus Cornwall Crafts Association Trellisick, Cornwall Crafts Association
2013 - Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Present Makers Exhibition
2013 - Exhibition of Ceramic works - Tapirs from Latvia - Terres d'Aligre, Paris
2013 - Exhibition of Works: Creativity in the Bronze Age: A Response: Museum of Anthropology & Archaeology, Cambridge University
2013 - Exhibition of Works: Creativity in the Bronze Age: A Response: Devises Heritage Museum
2012 - Exhibition of Small Porcelain Forms - Riga National Porcelain Museum, Latvia, 14 November
Education
2015 - AHRC 3D3 PhD Candidate
2012 - MEd Masters in Creative Education
2011 - PgDipHE
1997 - First Class B.A (Hons) Ceramics: Falmouth College of Art
1994 - Foundation in Art and Design: Mid-Warwickshire College
1993 - Diploma: Ceramics and Design: Mid-Warwickshire College
Memberships /Organisations
Trustee: Leach Pottery, St.Ives, Cornwall
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
NACHE: National Association for Ceramics in Higher Education
Cornwall Crafts Association/ Board Member/Selection Panel
Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Association