Helen Bodycomb

Mosaic Artist Helen Bodycomb

Artists overcame distance and isolation to create giant mosaic installation

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THE SYNERGY PROJECT A large-scale mosaic art exhibition celebrating nature and resilience was the culmination of the year-long Synergy Project. The ground-breaking collaboration led by internationally renowned mosaic artist Helen Bodycomb and involving seven emerging artists was created across multiple locations during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020-21 in Victoria, Australia. The ambitious Read More

Helen Bodycomb- the Material and the Immaterial

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An in depth conversation with mosaic artist Helen Bodycomb about her practice, thinking in mosaic, the material and the immaterial, being and nothingness, the spaces in between and our place in this crazy world. She is just finishing her PHD on such matters so she has thought a lot about them. Her show at Lot 19 in Castlemaine is there for all to see. It’s beautiful, poetic and important. Helen is Read More

Main FM Interview

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Interview with Helen Bodycomb on her visit to the Venice Biennale on Recommended Daily Intake with Frank Forster, Friday 4 August, 2017. Listen here. Read More

Helen Bodycomb: The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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Helen Bodycomb featured in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald June 26 2015 Castlemaine mosaic artist Helen Bodycomb began her working life as a flute teacher but has always perceived the world in highly visual terms, particularly patterns. As a child she loved making things with her hands using a stash of cardboard, string, boxes and egg cartons she kept under her bed. As a teenager, her dad Read More

2014 Sydney UBD/ Gregory’s Street Directory

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2014 Sydney UBD Directory Its flattering to have an out of the blue phone call from a publisher, asking permission to use one of your artworks to grace the cover of a widely distributed publication (even if it is ‘just’ a street directory). I was delighted that the image chosen is a crop of the iconic Bondi Surf Club lifesavers by Enver Camdal and me, part of a 27 piece Sydney street furniture Read More

2013 MAANZ Exhibition

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1st Prize in the 2013 MAANZ Exhibition On Friday 24 August 2013 I was honoured to be awarded 1st Prize for wall mounted work in the 2013 MAANZ Exhibition ILLUMINATE at Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, for my work ATTITUDE. ATTITUDE shows a sulphur crested cockatoo crest feather, unintentionally flicked into my garden from the head of a screeching cocky in a moment of unbridled emotional Read More

The Divided Heart

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The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood A divided heart; a split self; the sense that to succeed at one means to fail at the other. Do women still confront the attitude that a dedicated artist will avoid having children for the sake of her career? In The Divided Heart, Australia’s most respected artists, writers and actors speak frankly about the wrench between motherhood and their artistic Read More

Helen Bodycomb in the New York Times

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New York Times Article This is an excerpt from a New York Times Article on Helen & Ravenna Mosaico Mosaic is one of the oldest of the decorative arts and developed into one of the most spectacular. From humble beginnings in such forms as pebbles pressed in patterns into beaten earth floors, at its high points during Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times mosaic became a sophisticated fine Read More

World Within, World Without: Mosaic Installation

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World Within, World Without Mosaic Installation in Southbank At 11am on Tuesday the 16th November 2009 an apology was made by the Prime Minister of Australia to the 'Forgotton Australians', being children with aboriginal parents removed from their families due to the government policies of the day. 'Sorry Day' was for many people one of those 'where were you when it happened' moments (in my Read More

Ravenna Mosaico

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Ravenna Mosaico: Italy Ravenna Mosaico was an extraordinary, biennial event organized by the International Association of Contemporary Mosaicists and the Comune di Ravenna.  This delightful town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its Byzantine mosaic treasures, is claiming the right to be seen as the global nexus for contemporary mosaics – and they are doing a great job of it. There were Read More

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