Helen Couchman was born in 1973 and spent her childhood between Wales and Hampshire, moving to London in 1991 and completing a BA in Fine Art at Sir John Cass College in 1996. She completed an MA in Fine Art (Critical Fine Art Practice) at Central Saint Martins in 1998.

Couchman has exhibited both in the UK and internationally. Solo shows include Lost Landscape and Linebuilding, exhibited while she was visiting artist at London College of Communication, and Streetscape at The Peckham Women's Centre in London. She exhibited Mrs West's Hats at the First Floor Gallery in Yerevan, Armenia; Gift was shown at 3rd Floor Contemporary in Beijing; and New Work was exhibited at Gallery Perif, also in Beijing.

Group exhibitions include Future Landscapes, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shropshire; Uncommon Ground, Artsway, Hampshire; Sodium Blindness, APT Gallery, London; There was no single reason for me to be there at first, The Photographer's Gallery, London; find(found), 4 New Burlington Street, London and Contemporary Chinoiserie at Collyer Bristow Gallery, London.

Helen Couchman has held residencies at Cyprus College of Art and Vermont Studio Center, USA. In 2006, she accepted an invitation to work in China culminating in a solo exhibition at the annual Dashanzi International Art Festival (DIAF) in Beijing. She currently lives in Beijing and in 2008 she launched her first publication, a book of photographic portraits, WORKERS 工人 in Beijing, London and Hong Kong as well as exhibiting portraits from the series in Hong Kong and London. Helen will exhibit at Transition Gallery, London in 2009.

Education
2008	research - TrAIN (Transnational art, identity and culture) Chelsea College of Art, University of Arts London
1998	MA Fine Art (Critical Fine Art Practice) - Central Saint Martins College of Art, London
1996	BA (hons) Fine Art - Sir John Cass College of Art and Design, London
Residencies
2006	March - May, Beijing, China
2005	Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA - Fellowship for Photography
2004	Yerervan, Armenia
2003	Cyprus College of Art, Pafos, Cyprus