Helen Carnac

DESCRIBE YOUR APPROACH TO TEACHING

I have an open and questioning approach to learning. I work with individuals and groups and explore visual stimulation, materials and processes. I see my teaching as an extension of my working process, participants are encouraged to share and engage in knowledge through processes of talking, walking, looking and experimenting with materials.

WHAT WILL STUDENTS GAIN IF THEY COME ON ONE OF YOUR COURSES?

An open and experimental approach to designing, making and problem solving. A knowledge of mark making, working with metal and enamel and simple drawing techniques. A better understanding of your own and others’ creative processes.

ARE THERE ANY PARTICULAR TECHNIQUES/PROCESSES YOU USE IN YOUR TEACHING?

Walking, talking, collecting, making intuitively, experimenting with process. Group discussions.

WHAT INSPIRES YOUR OWN WORK?

Process and doing. I use various medium and media: making, materials, writing, walking, locality, place, people, marks made and left behind and stuff.

WHERE CAN STUDENTS SEE EXAMPLES OF YOUR WORK?

On my website.

WHERE DID YOU GAIN YOUR TRAINING/EXPERIENCE? (INCLUDE ANY QUALIFICATIONS)

I have a BA Hons in Silversmithing, Jewellery and Allied Crafts from Sir John Cass, London Guildhall University. I also studied in Germany at Fachhochschule fur Gestaltung, Schwabisch Gmund. I have a B.T.E.C HND Design Crafts, Plymouth College of Art & Design and an Art Foundation qualification from Newport College of Art and Design.
I am also a qualified professional coach in relational dynamics.

WHAT TEACHING EXPERIENCE HAVE YOU HAD?

2011 Guest Professor, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin

2011 Sint Lucas Art Academy, Antwerp

2011 California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA

2011 and ongoing Middlesex University, London. Jewellery and Accessories BA

2010 and ongoing Camberwell College of Art and Design, London. MA Designer Maker

2010 Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle, USA

2010 Strelka Post Graduate School for Architecture and Design, Moscow

2010 Penland School of Arts, North Carolina, USA

2010 Edinburgh College of Arts

1999 – 2009 London Metropolitan University. Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design. Senior Lecturer. Jewellery and Silversmithing

2008 University of East Carolina, North Carolina, USA
2007 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
2007 University of East Carolina, North Carolina, USA
2007 Millersville University, Pennsylvania, USA

Jan 2001- July 2002 Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication Lead Tutor Foundation: 3D Design

IS YOUR WORK IN ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE COLLECTION?

Museum of Art and Design New York. Rotasa Foundation, California, USA. Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA. Bilston Gallery, UK.

HAVE YOU WRITTEN ANY BOOKS/HAD ARTICLES PUBLISHED?

2012 A shared View: Stitching together ideas in time: a project in Berlin to be published 2012
2011 ‘Collaboration through Craft’ Book Chapter To be published on Berg 2013
2010 ‘Into the Unknown’ A reflection on fellowship in Cultural Leadership in the Arts
http://www.culturalleadership.org.uk/
2010 ‘Making Time’ ‘Studio; Craft and Design in Canada’, Fall/Winter 2010, pp38-42
http://makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/new-article-for-studio-magazine/
2010 ‘House of Words’
Journal of Modern Craft: Exhibition Review Volume 3, Number 2, July 2010 , pp. 253-256(4)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/cftj/2010/00000003/00000002/art00010
‘Stitching it together in time’Essay Contribution to Upcycling Textiles: Adding Value through Design http://www.everandagain.info/2009 ‘Handmade is favourite’
Paratus Communication: Consultancy and written report on Handmade to support International press campaign
www.costa.co.uk/pdf/press/handmade_media_report.pdf

Works Published In
Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution ISBN-10: 0952683296 ISBN-13: 978-0952683292, ‘The Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellers’, LIM, A. Darling Publications, Germany ISBN: 978-3-939130-95-6, 500 Enameled Objects, Lark Books, 2009, Enamel Experience’ UWE, 2007, ISBN 978-1-906501-00-6, Process Works 5 Jewellers, Jan 2007, Site Projects, ISBN 13 978—0-9554379-1-5, Diaspora Cymreig, Makers of welsh origin working outside of Wales: 2002 ISBN-10: 1900941503, ISBN-13: 978-1900941501, Form: Wales Art International by Ceri Jones (Editor)ISBN-10: 0954513029 ISBN-13: 978-0954513023 2003

DO YOU BELONG TO ANY PROFFESSIONAL GROUPS/SOCIETIES?

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
A board member of Artquest.
A member of the Art Jewellery Forum (USA).