WORKING ON MY HELLO FUTURE ARCHIVE SKETCHBOOK...

I seem to have accumulated more images than first realised. Brilliant, lots of paper scraps on my living room floor - however (as a fan of 'the sketchbook'), I'm enjoying the project. More images soon.
www.sgt.gr/en/programme/event/1898

BODY EXHIBITION @ PH21 GALLERY, BUDAPEST

An interesting project I'm currently exhibiting in until 15th December 2014:

http://www.ph21gallery.com/#!body/c1upc 

PH21 Gallery

Szkéné Theatre

Budapest University of

Technology and Economics

H-1111 Budapest

Műegyetem rkpt. 3.

"Helen McGhie’s Cavity from the series “(M)other”  leans towards the nonfigurative while observing all the details." - Zsolt Bátori, PH21 Gallery Director

SKETCHBOOK ARRIVAL - HELLO FUTURE ARCHIVE PROJECT @ ONASISS CULTURAL CENTRE NEXT YEAR

Okay, there are lots of pages to fill here. I was recently invited to take place in the project, to fill up a sketchbook which will become part of the Onasiss Cultural Centre's collection, exhibited with a bunch of other artist sketchbooks. Pretty exciting - I want to explore fragments of photographs, work a little messier than usual (it is a sketchbook after all) I hope to evoke a sense of friction.

Planning to document the work as it develops, will post here soon.

NOISE FESTIVAL WINNER: 'CRADLE' IS ELAINE CONSTANTINE'S CURATOR CHOICE

Noise festival launched at the House of Commons last week. More information about festival events are online 

http://noisefestival.com/festival/2014/events/launch.

"Decay, decline, death: things we would all rather not have to engage with but which impose themselves on us all in the end - gently summed up in Helen's interior and still life. Most photographers would have overlooked the cobwebs and dead flies for something more obvious." 
- Elaine Constantine, 2014

http://noisefestival.com/user/helen-mcghie/work/cradle

See Cradle as part of the Noise festival Best New Creatives outdoor exhibition, London Southbank. 

PENUMBRA BOOK FEATURES 'FITTING ROOMS' PROJECT

http://verbureau.co.uk/post/94182594819/penumbra-book-launch

Join VERB Bureau for the book launch:

Friday 15th August 2014, 6pm - 9pm

A.P.T. Gallery, Deptford

"Following on from our art exhibition Penumbra, which was held in A.P.T. Gallery in Deptford, London in May 2014, this book is an exploration of the themes raised in the show, which stemmed from notions of transitory stages and states of uncertainty, as well as the contemporary issue of the difficultly in obtaining professional and financial stability. The Penumbra publication is a collection of creative and academic texts developing the discussion started in our exhibition further as well as acting as a catalogue of the show. The publication includes texts by: Rachael Smith, Bedwyr Williams, Greta Eacott, Anna Hussey, Lydia Julien, Collette Rayner with Daisy Lafarge, HE. Wiseman, Nella Janiika Aarne, Elizabeth Hudson and Olga Stebleva." 
- VERB Bureau

Fitting Rooms was included in Penumbra, an exhibition curated by VERB Bureau earlier this year.
See review:   http://www.southlondonartmap.com/magazine/issue-27/spotlight-27

(M)OTHER INSTALLATION AT SHOW RCA 2014

Installation of (M)other at Show RCA 2014. Eight hand-printed C-Type Photographs.

Show RCA 2014 was a great opportunity to experiment with displaying my most recent series of photographs. Through the show, I made a visual relationship between fragments of domestic interiors and cropped sections of female skin. By hanging frames at different heights, this enabled the viewer to have a child-like experience of looking up and down at new surroundings.

See the series online: http://www.helenmcghie.com/(M)other.html

RCA FINAL SHOW. OPEN UNTIL 29th JUNE

Open daily, 12pm - 8pm. Photography is part of the school of Fine Art, located at the RCA Battersea campus. My work is upstairs in the Sackler Painting Building. 

http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/show-rca-2014/

(M)other

The work explores an analogy between the body of the Mother, the figure of the 'Monstrous Female' and the interior of a worn English house. Here, photographs of sun-drenched wallpaper and spider webs alongside the visceral surface of the ageing female body become subjects of fascination.  The physical security of home is called into question, where leaking ceilings and darkened corners suggest the embodiment of an un-named or unknowable fear. Imperfections in shadowy vein riddled skin present the maternal body as being at once haunted and as the site of nurture.

In Show RCA a cluster of differently scaled photographs present a labyrinth for the gaze, where ambiguous shadowy interiors are hung amongst images of the overwhelming female body.

For further info about (M)other, see RCA catalogue:

http://www.rca.ac.uk/showcase/show-rca-2014/schooloffineart/photography/helen-mcghie/