Artist Profile – Dorothy Helyer

Dorothy Helyer is a full time artist, living in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she works and exhibits nationally and internationally. She has always drawn and painted since childhood. Her original degree was in Anthropology /Archeology from the University of Otago. After a number of years teaching Dorothy returned to study and completed her BFA, BFA(Hons) then her MFA (Painting) with Distinction at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts completed in 2001. Since graduation she has exhibited successfully in numerous solo and group shows throughout New Zealand and has been a finalist in a number of national awards. This year she has been selected as a finalist in both the Waikato National Contemporary Art Awards and for the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award.

Dorothy Helyer’s work is held in a number of collections, both corporate and private in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, UK and USA.

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Recent work

Awards

2010 - Finalist, Molly Morpeth Canaday Award

2008 - Highly Commended, Margaret Stoddard Award

2006, 2008, 2010 - Finalist, Waikato National Contemporary Art Award

2003–2007, 2009 - Finalist, COCA Anthony Harper Award

2003 - Finalist, Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award

2001 - Finalist, Wallace Art Award

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2010 Vola l'uccellino! COCA

2009 Now Points, COCA

2007 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To everything there is a season.) COCA

2007 Overlap, Gallery 33, Wanaka

2006 Fantasy and Fugue, Edmiston Duke Gallery, Auckland

2006 Interrupted Cadence, COCA