Helen Pheby

Helen Pheby is an art curator who currently works as Associate Director, Programme, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.[1] Dr Pheby was Vice Chair of the Civic art gallery and theatre in Barnsley;[2] the Chair of UP Projects, London (2019-22);[3] curatorial advisor to ArtRole in Iraqi Kurdistan and NIROX in South Africa. She is also a Cultural Fellow of York St John University and was an advisor to the Arts Council Collection Acquisition Committee (2016–17).[4] Dr Pheby is regularly invited to undertake international lectures and tours including Sculpture Dublin (2020); Park 3020, Ukraine (2019); the Contemporary Austin, USA (2017)[5] and as the guest of Creative India (2013).[6] Helen has collaborated with Selfridges since 2018 to curate the Duke Street entrance to their flagship London store.[7]

Helen Pheby
OccupationCurator
NationalityBritish

Career

Pheby's PhD thesis considered controversial public sculpture as a means to better understand art's place in a healthy society. which is evolved through debate and understanding,[8][9]

Pheby has worked with international partners to co-curate several offsite projects including the Kyiv Sculpture Project (2012).[10][11] In 2016 she curated 'A Place in Time' at the NIROX sculpture foundation in the UNESCO Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.

Pheby's 2016 exhibition 'Beyond Boundaries: Art by Email' in collaboration with ArtRole in Kurdistan-Iraq gave a platform to artists in the Middle East and North Africa whose political and other circumstances made it very difficult for them to travel to the UK.[12][13]

References
  1. "2015 Awards". www.artsfoundation.co.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  2. Civic, The. "Dr Helen Pheby - The Civic". www.barnsleycivic.co.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  3. "UP Projects".
  4. "2016-2017 Acquisitions Committee - Arts Council Collection". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  5. "Visiting Lecture: Art Outside - Contemporary Austin". www.thecontemporaryaustin.org. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  6. "Cona and Creative India Public Art Intensive to Host a Workshop by David Brooks - Artinfo". blouinartinfo.com. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  7. "Selfridges now has its very own Fourth Plinth". 15 May 2018.
  8. Lucy., Pheby, Helen (11 September 2017). "'Wot for?' - 'why not?' : controversial public art : an investigation of the terms". bl.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  9. Gompertz, Will (11 September 2017). "Public art has become an unregulated free for all". Retrieved 11 September 2017 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  10. "Dobrinya Ivanov / PinchukArtCentre". PinchukArtCentre.org. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  11. "Kyiv Sculpture Project 2012". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  12. Holledge, Richard (6 January 2017). "Art by email: When artists are trapped in troubled regions". Financial Times.
  13. "The Art Newspaper". Archived from the original on 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
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