Helen Couchman |
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Helen Couchman |
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| 2007 | New Work - Gallery Perif, 5th DIAF Art Festival, 798 District, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Gift - 3rd Floor Contemporary, 4th Dashanzi International Art Festival, 798 District, Beijing, China |
| 2005 | Linebuilding - The Well Gallery, London College of Communication (visiting artist) |
| 2004 | Lost Landscape - Digital Design Department, London College of Communication (visiting artist) |
| Mrs West's Hats - First Floor Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia | |
| 2001 | Italy Series – The Photographer’s Gallery Bookshop, London |
| 2000 | 19.30 - Langham Place, London (National Contemporary Art Prize, Pizza Express - London winner) |
| 1999 | There was no single reason for me to be there at first - The Photographer’s Gallery, London |
| 1997 | Streetscape - Peckham Women's Centre, London |
| 1997 | Preface - The Windows Gallery, Charing Cross Road, London |
| 2009 | Transtition Gallery, London |
| 2008 | Contemporary Chinoiserie - Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (London Festival of Architecture 2008) |
| Solutions for a Modern City - Park Court, Pacific Place, Hong Kong | |
| China in Motion - Phase 2, London (China Now and London Festival of Architecture 2008) | The Affordable Art Fair, 798 District, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Open 05 - Artsway, Hampshire |
| 2005 | Future Landscape - Shrewsbury Open Art Exhibition |
| 2004 | Creekside Open - APT Gallery, London |
| Uncommon Ground - Artsway, Hampshire | |
| 2000 | Sodium Blindness - APT Gallery, London |
| 1997 | find(found) - 4 New Burlington Street, London |
| 1994 | Art and Accountancy Exhibition - The Financial Training Company, London (2nd Prize) |
| Publications | |
| 2008 | WORKERS 工人 Introductory text by Peter Suchin Texts in English/Chinese Hardback, 152 pages, illustrated in colour, dimensions 250mm x 210mm Published by Soloshow Publishing with the kind support of Arup First Edition |
| ISBN 978-0-9560172-0-8 | |
| Hong Kong book launch of WORKERS 工人 Book signing at Kelly & Walsh, Pacific Place. 31 July 2008 |
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| London book launch of WORKERS 工人 Book signing with an introduction to the project by Dr Jennifer Greitschus, Curator. The Photographers' Gallery, 26th June 2008 |
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| Talks | |
| 2008 | Helen Couchman in conversation: WORKERS 工人 At Images and Organization the launch and first seminar in the inVisio series, The Photographer's Gallery, London. 14 October |
| Beijing book launch of WORKERS 工人 Panel discussion with: Helen Couchman, Stacey Duff, art critic for Time Out Beijing (US), Wang Kan NGO Director of ZXD (China), John Pauline, PTW Architects (Australia), moderated by Jeremiah Jenne, Qing dynasty historian. The Bookworm, 20 June |
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| Collections | |
| 2008 | The Arup Collection, London |
| 2006 | The Fan Museum, London |
| Awards | |
| 2005 | Fellowship for Photography - Vermont Studio Center, USA |
| 2000 | National Contemporary Art Competition, sponsored by Pizza Express - London winner |
| Press | |
| 2008 | Craft Magazine (November/December issue) Contemporary Chinoiserie - review by Gigi Chang, assistant curator of China Design Now, V&A, London |
| Urbane Magazine (December issue) Parting Shot, Beijing | |
| The Age online, www.theage.com.au/multimedia/beijing08/workers1/gallery.html, audio slide show, They built this city - Mary-Anne Toy | |
| The Age newspaper, (7th August) Silent workers get their moment to shine before the games begin - Mary-Anne Toy. Melbourne | |
| The Sydney Morning Herald, (7th August) Workers - Mary-Anne Toy | |
| That's Beijing (August issue) Helen Couchman's Workers feature - Peter Walters | |
| ESPN Star Sports Singapore (August) interview and television short by Christy Simson. Beijing | |
| Beijing 2008 Image of the day (13 August) Building a dream, www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5x6lgE97P4 - television short by Jennifer Eden. | |
| South China Morning Post (30 July) Photographer puts faces to construction on iconic Games sites - Ng Tze-Wei. Hong Kong | |
| Urbane Magazine (July issue) Coffee Table Q&A, WORKERS 工人 - Kit Gillet. Beijing | |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (30 June) CBC Radio One, Q: Arts and Culture, podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20080630_6503.mp3 - live interview with Jian Ghomeshi, London | |
| China Radio International (21 June) http://english.cri.cn/4026/2008/06/21/1901@371406.htm, Images of Chinese Migrant Workers in Foreign Artist's Lens - interview with Xiao yu. Beijing | |
| Polskie Radio Europe (15 July) 7 do Sajewicza, www.polskieradio.pl/_fileseuro/20080516131712/2008072105023276.mp3 - interview with Tomasz Sajewicz, Beijing | |
| Polish Television Information Agency (July) television short - Robert Goralczyk. Beijing | |
| The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2008/06/work-unit.html (19 June) The Book Bench, WORK UNIT - Ligaya Mishan. | |
| Danwei, www.danwei.org (17 June) Workers book launch - Jeremy Goldkorn. Beijing | |
| Jottings from the Granite Studio, http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/07/helen-couchmans-workers (16 June) Two Bookworm events this week for those of us still left in Beijing... - by Jeremiah Jenne. Beijing. | |
| City Weekend Magazine (6 June issue) Explain your art - WORKERS 工人. Beijing | |
| China Radio International (8 May) The Affordable Art Fair, Beijing | |
| 2007 | Radio Beijing, A Tale of two Cities - hour interview programme with Jane, 1st November, Beijing |
| 2005 | University of Arts London online (UAL) (December) www.arts.ac.uk/events/linebuilding.htm, Linebuilding by visiting artist Helen Couchman. |
| 2004 | Sky News interview at the opening of Mrs West's Hats. Yerevan, Armenia |
| 1999 | Flash Art (October issue), Sodium Blindness reviewed, Gianmarco Del Re |