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    • 2023 | Emergences - Vasse Felix
    • 2022 | Sculpture at Bathers - Papirri
    • 2022 | Esperance book project
    • 2022 | Royal Perth Art Prize
    • 2022 | Jury Prize - Port Hedland
    • 2022 | South West Art Now
    • 2021 | Dwelling Rituals
    • 2021 | (t)ruth
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    • 2020 | South Western Times Survey
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    • 2019 | Fibre - Holmes a Court Gallery
    • 2019 | Wildflower State
    • 2019 | Alternative Archive
    • 2019 | Bunbury Biennale
    • 2018 | Are we there yet?
    • 2018 | Stations of the Cross
    • 2009-2017 | Gross Domestic Product
    • 2017 | The Spaces Between Us - Adding absence
    • 2016 | The Survey - Cloud Seed Express
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    • 2012 | Melville Sculpture Walk
    • 2012 | Marsh Art
    • 2012 | Castaways Sculpture Exhibition
    • 2015-14 | Inflorescience Series
    • 2014 | @home series
    • 2012 | Aurum
    • 2014 | Minnawarra Art Award
    • 2012 | Ladders
    • 2014 | Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe
    • 2013 | Strangers in my Palace
    • 2011 | Birdland
    • 2013 | Melville Sculpture Walk
    • 2013 | Sculpture@Bathers
    • 2011 | Mt Narryer
    • 2013 | Sticks in my Mind
    • 2012 | Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe
    • 2010 | Yarloop Townscape Sculptures
    • 2010 | Home is where...
    • 2010 | Old Mallokup Bridge
    • 2010 | Cnr Boonooloo and Heath
    • 2009 | Now we lie in it
    • 2009 | Whose Flag?
    • 2008 | Space and Place
    • 2008 | It's Child's Play
    • 2008 | Fringe Focus
    • 2008 | River Art
    • 2008 | Endangered Species
    • 2007 | Outside is the Real Place
    • 2007 | Bunbury Bienalle
    • 2006 | Translating Broken Space
    • 2006 | Fact or Fiction
    • 2008 | Standing Safe
    • 2005 | Sight Analysis
    • 2004 | 60 Gladstone Ave
    • Virginia Cunningham
      • Spin Cycle
      • 2009 | Gross Domestic Product
      • Cunning Stunts
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2012 | Aurum

Mundaring Art Centre

Helen Seiver's work translates the landscape of the Northern Goldfields of Western Australia as both physical and subjective space. Recent journeys to areas of historic gold mining settlements, now existing as no more than shards and scraps of lives once lived in the harshest of environments, gives a broader context in which to locate the simplest of history, that of the every day and in particular daily life of women. The work employs symbols such as 'home' to bring focus to the ideas underpinning the role/absence of women in West Australian history. Seiver has a fundamental belief in the strength and power of women that is and has been drawn from the everyday, domestic experience. She seeks a process to make sense of past, present and future roles and expectations of women in contemporary Australian society.

This body of work is also a private exploration of how to fit individual place and space into the shared histories of Australia.

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