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Happy Christmas!
‘Snow gate, Heilongjiang Province, Northern China’
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Tagged China, Heilongjiang Province
Mrs West’s Hats – China State Radio website
Click here to see the China State Radio’s new web page about Helen Couchman and her book Mrs West’s Hats. The page written in mandarin shows images from the book and a video. The video features clips from their recent hour long interview with Helen about her book and British hats in general. The programme [...]
Posted in book, interview, radio, video
Tagged China State Radio
Commission – Hublot Gold Cup, Gstaad for The Polo Times
Posted in commission, magazine, photography
Tagged The Polo Times
Mrs. West’s Hats – discussing hats
Helen Couchman discussing Mrs. West’s Hats with presenter Chloe and milliner Elisabeth Koch. Live radio/video broadcast on 1st December. 8-9pm, Beijing / 12noon-1GMT. Listen live here on China State Radio 774.
Posted in book, interview, photography, radio
Tagged China State Radio, Mrs. West's Hats
Mrs. West’s Hats – available at the ICA
Mrs. West’s Hats is now available at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) London.
TINAG festival inc. ‘Cloud series, Yellow lining’ opening photos
Thanks to Rehan Jamil for the images.
Posted in printmaking, private view
Tagged This Is Not A Gateway (TINAG)
Exhibition – Cloud series, Yellow lining
Exhibition of lino-cut, woodblock, etched and Chine-collé prints. Shown at the This Is Not A Gateway (TINAG) 3rd, Festival On Cities. Opening 7pm on Thursday 21st October. Then 22-24th October. Hanbury Hall, 22 Hanbury Street, (off Brick Lane) London E1 6QR * * * Cloud series, Yellow lining This new, ongoing series of landscapes employs [...]
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Tagged This Is Not A Gateway (TINAG)
Books now stocked at the Walker Art Center
WORKERS 工人 and Mrs. West Hats both now stocked at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Walker Art Center . Update 20/12/2010: WORKERS 工人 spotted at The Walker, thanks for the photo HC.
Posted in book
Tagged Walker Art Center
Mrs. West’s Hats book – on view at Les Rencontres d’Arles
Arles International Photography Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles, 3 July – 19 September 2010
Posted in book, photography
Tagged Les Rencontres d'Arles
Interview – Mrs. West’s Hats. China state radio, Radio Beijing
Live interview for Talk Box on Beijing Radio, 774am. 14th July, 11am-12noon. Presenters June Lee and Dominic Swire interview Helen Couchman about her work and her recent book Mrs. West’s Hats. The interview was broadcast with an accompanying live video link. At the studio in a hat borrowed for the show. Photo taken by the [...]
Posted in book, interview, photography, radio
Tagged China State Radio
Commission – 67 Beijige San Tiao
Posted in commission, drawing
Tagged 67 Beijige San Tiao, Beijing, courtyard, drawing, houses, siheyuan, watercolour
Interview – Tianjin People’s Broadcasting Station
Interviewed on East & West, Arts and Culture programme. Sunday 13th June, 1-2pm. FM87.8 AM747 Tianjin Binhai Radio. 天津电台滨海广播 www.radiobh.com . Listen here to the mp3 file: www.radiotj.com/audio/0/00/11/44/114477_875031.mp3 .
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Tagged Tianjin People's Broadcasting Station (TPBS)
Mrs. West’s Hats – now at PS1 MOMA
Mrs. West’s Hats is now available at PS1 MOMA bookshop, New York City. http://ps1.org/about/bookstore
Posted in book, photography
Tagged PS1 MOMA
Portrait – Lutz Engelke
Lutz Engelke, founder of Triad for Die Zeit, 20th May 2010. Berlin based company Triad won the commission from the Shanghai World Expo 2010 committee to design one of the three themed pavilions at Expo, ‘Urban Planet.’ Article by Frank Sieren.
Posted in commission, newspaper, photography
Tagged Die Zeit
Featured – British Embassy Beijing, ‘Britons in China’
In order to celebrate and showcase British peoples’ contributions and accomplishments in China, the British Embassy Beijing launches ‘Britons in China’. People will be profiled on the British Embassy website in the year running up to the 2010 Shanghai Expo offering readers an inspiring insight into the lives of notable British people and their endeavours [...]
Posted in interview, photography
Tagged British Embassy Beijing
Opening – books on exhibit in New York
WORKERS 工人 and Mrs. West’s Hats on exhibit in New York. The Artful Scriptorium Climate/Gallery 37-24 24th Street, Suite 406 Long Island City NY 11101 www.climategallery.com Opening reception, 10th April 2010, 6-9 pm Thurs. – Sun. 12-5pm until 25th April
Posted in book, exhibition, private view
Tagged climate/gallery
Featured – China Daily, ‘Private fantasies, creative vulnerability’
Feature article, ‘Private fantasies, creative vulnerability‘ about Helen Couchman’s work is in the China Daily newspaper this morning. English artist Helen Couchman at work in her Beijing home. Wang Jing / China Daily British artist presents cultures in photographs. A look at her bio makes it sound like English artist Helen Couchman has taken her [...]
Posted in interview, newspaper, printmaking
Tagged China Daily
Interview – China state radio, Radio Beijing
Live interview for Talk Box on Beijing Radio, 774am. 2nd March, 11am-12noon. Presenters June Lee and Dominic Swire interview Helen Couchman about her work, her book WORKERS 工人 and living in Beijing. To listen click here.
Posted in book, interview, radio
Tagged Radio Beijing
Featured – International Herald Tribune, ‘Expatriate art thrives in China’
International Herald Tribune Weekend Arts, 9-10 Jan 2010. Image is No. 52 taken from the series Untitled (Collecting and Dropping) Page 14 and front page.
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Tagged International Herald Tribune
Commission – Articles for ARTQUEST
Commissioned in late 2009 by Artquest for their Artroute – China pages. Published January 2010. www.artquest.org.uk/artroute/asia/china ‘There have been many key moments in my experience of living in China, mostly born from small observations of things around me that have taught me something about Chinese culture and usually myself. I suggest that these incidentals are what [...]
Posted in commission, writing
Tagged Artquest, Artroute, China
Featured – New York Times, ‘For Expatriates in China, Creative Lives of Plenty’
Article in full: www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/arts/design/10expatsweb.html Slideshow: www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/10/arts/20100110-expats_index.html For Expatriates in China, Creative Lives of Plenty by Dan Levin. NY Times arts page, Sunday, 10th January 2010 THERE was a chill in the morning air in 2005 when dozens of artists from China, Europe and North America emerged from their red-brick studios here to find the police [...]
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Tagged The New York Times
Climate change photograph for Al Jazeera
Photograph for article: China’s creeping sands published to coincide with the Copenhagen Summit on climate change. Al Jazeera, 9th December 2009
Posted in commission, newspaper, photography
Tagged Al Jazeera
New photographic work on exhibit
Three photographic prints selected from the series Untitled (Collecting and Dropping) are on exhibit at Transition Gallery in London through November. For more about this series see the Portfolio page here. Untitled (Collecting and Dropping) No.52 Untitled (Collecting and Dropping) No.179 Untitled (Collecting and Dropping) No.228 All from the series Untitled (Collecting and Dropping).No.s 1 [...]
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Tagged Transition Gallery
Mrs. West’s Hats recommended – Beijing Today
Vivian Wang from the Bookworm recommends the following bestsellers to Beijing Today readers. Yu Li: Confessions of an Elevator Operator. By Jimmy Qi Mrs. West’s Hats. By Helen Couchman, introduction by Anthony Gorman Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation. By Michael Keller, illustrated by Nicolle Rager Fuller He Jianwei www.beijingtoday.com.cn
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Tagged Beijing Today
Mrs. West’s Hats London book launch photos
At the Phoenix Artist Club
Posted in book, private view, talk
Tagged Phoenix Artist Club
Mrs. West’s Hats review – The Hat magazine
in print Mrs West’s Hats by Helen Couchman with an introduction by Anthony Gorman Mrs. West’s Hats is the first publication in book form of a series of sixty photographic self-portraits produced by the artist Helen Couchman in 1997. The title of the piece refers to Couchman’s maternal grandmother, Mrs West (1909-1993). In the photographs [...]
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Tagged The Hat Magazine
Mrs. West’s Hats review – Country Life, ‘Hats off to new book’
in print Hats off to new book A young British artist this week unveiled a striking and stylish hardback book that features 60 self-portraits in which she wears a succession of her late grandmother’s vintage hats. Helen Couchman, who grew up in rural Wales andHampshire, re discovered the collection, from the 1940s and 50s, in [...]
Posted in book, magazine, review
Tagged Country Life
There and Everywhere – private view
There and Everywhere Helen Couchman Liz Harrison David Webb 5th November 6-9pm PRESS RELEASE Like the numerous luggage labels from different locations pasted onto battered suitcases, artists’ journeys now take centre stage on the cultural landscape. In his manifesto of altermodernity Nicolas Bourriaud proclaims that in our era of globalisation, artists [...]
Posted in exhibition, postcard, private view
Tagged Transition Gallery
Mrs. West’s Hats – London book launch
Dr Carol Tulloch in conversation with Helen Couchman Book launch and book signing 6.30pm, 3rd November 2009 Phoenix Artist Club, 1 Phoenix Street, Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0DT Update: 04/10/09 Many thanks to Carol, Mauice and to everyone at the London launch for your interesting questions and good wishes.
Posted in book, flyer
Tagged Phoenix Artist Club
Mapping the move
The UAL Centre for Drawing are inviting alumni to draw the Southhampton Row and Charing Cross sites before Central Saint Martins school, based there, moves to King’s Cross. The project is called Mapping the Move. The CSM Museum and Contemporary Collection are now the owners of the drawing directly below. I choose to draw in [...]
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Tagged Central Saint Martins, Charing Cross Road, drawing
