Helen Omand
Helen Omand is an artist and filmmaker based in London and recently qualified as an art psychotherapist with an MA from Goldsmiths. Her artwork uses ceramics, drawing and video, and recent work is a response to a growing awareness of unconscious processes within the individual and society.
Part of Helen's current practice evolved from her experiences of clinical work on the art therapy training, and concerns an attempt to understand, and make conscious, her reaction to feelings present in the therapy room. Here she
exhibits work that was a response to working as a trainee art therapist with children who had been neglected. The image of a cradle emerged from their play with a dolls house in the therapy room, where fantasies were played out about babies and mothers; love, care and neglect. The dolls house cradle became an object full of meaning. The repetitive process of casting echoes a search for something lost. The cradles are like little ghosts of the former object.
Helen currently works part time as an art therapist in an open studio for adults with mental health difficulties, and as an artist practitioner in arts in health and community arts, facilitating projects for the Science Museum, Creative Partnerships and Headliners amongst others. She has worked on films recently with the Light Surgeons, the Crafts Council, and the National Maritime Museum. Her background is in art and psychology.
Part of Helen's current practice evolved from her experiences of clinical work on the art therapy training, and concerns an attempt to understand, and make conscious, her reaction to feelings present in the therapy room. Here she
exhibits work that was a response to working as a trainee art therapist with children who had been neglected. The image of a cradle emerged from their play with a dolls house in the therapy room, where fantasies were played out about babies and mothers; love, care and neglect. The dolls house cradle became an object full of meaning. The repetitive process of casting echoes a search for something lost. The cradles are like little ghosts of the former object.
Helen currently works part time as an art therapist in an open studio for adults with mental health difficulties, and as an artist practitioner in arts in health and community arts, facilitating projects for the Science Museum, Creative Partnerships and Headliners amongst others. She has worked on films recently with the Light Surgeons, the Crafts Council, and the National Maritime Museum. Her background is in art and psychology.