Helen Idle

Helen Idle joined the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in 2006 as a part-time PhD candidate. She was awarded a Master of Arts in Visual Culture from the Centre for Arts Research and Technology (CARTE) at the University of Westminster in 2005 and was awarded a Cultural Studies Scholarship for Excellence in Cultural Studies 2005. Before embarking on post-graduate research Helen worked in various management roles for design and branding agencies in London and Edinburgh, with clients including Unilever and Moët et Chandon. During her candidacy Helen has worked for a variety of clients including Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts).

Teaching

2014 Guest Lecturer, Australian Literature and Film, KCL 2012-13 Seminar Leader, Australian Literature and Film, KCL 2006 Guest Lecturer, Production Display and Discourse, MA Visual Culture, University of Westminster

Publications

Helen Idle, ‘A wander through Australia in Piccadilly’, Meanjin, Vol 73 no 3, (September 2014)

Helen Idle, ‘Artworks from home, Out of place’ in Vanessa Castejon, Anna Cole, Oliver Haag and Karen Hughes (eds) Ngapartji ngapartji, in turn, in turn: ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia, (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2014) pp. 187-194

Helen Idle, ‘Of an underwater flâneur’ in exhibition catalogue, Jo Darbyshire, The Floating World, (Maylands: Jo Darbyshire, 2009).

2005 – 2008 Author of fourteen stories for Performance Artist Barbara Campbell’s live webcast performance 1001 nights cast. (archived at: www.1001.net.au)

Conference/Seminar Papers

Making up Hometown: where are you from? 10th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Tampere, Finland, 1-4 July 2014.

What’s the time? A response to the Royal Academy exhibition 'Australia', Art & Diplomacy II Symposium, King’s College London and University of Melbourne, at King’s College London, 4 November 2013.

Nothing to see: an enquiry into the space between two paintings: Old Bedford (2005) and September (2005) European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA) International Conference, Bordeaux, 4-7 September 2013.

Exhibiting Australian Aboriginal Works in Contemporary European Galleries and Museums - An Unsettling and Irritating Business. Menzies Centre for Australian Studies Seminar, King’s College London, 28 March 2012.

Artworks from Home, Out of Place, Researching the Other, Transfers of Self. Ego-Histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia International Conference, University Paris XIII, 11 December 2011

From Ilkurlka to Europe: Looking at Spinifex Paintings in Europe, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, University of Technology Sydney, December 2005.

2005: Monika Sosnowska, Untitled, 2004. Reading the work, Serpentine Gallery, London.

2005: Signs and symbols in Aboriginal paintings, Balfour Primary School, Brighton, UK.

Editorial work

Editor, Right is Wrong- Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+Sigg Collection, (Bildmuseet: Umeå, Sweden, 2014)

Production Editor, Michele Eliot, Thinking and Making: a project in Kolkata, (Singapore and Sydney: Michele Eliot, 2010)

Editorial assistant, Dewdney A and Peter Ride, The New Media Handbook, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006)

 Conferences/Research Symposia/ Workshops attended

10th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Tampere, Finland, 1-4 July 2014

Art and Diplomacy II, King’s College London, 4 November 2013

Modernists and Mentors, Indigenous and Colonial Artistic Exchanges, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, 7 November 2013

European Association for the Studies of Australia (EASA) ‘On the Margins’, Bordeaux, 4-7 September 2013

The Transnational Turn, European University Institute, Florence organised with University of Copenhagen, King’s College London, University College Dublin, 3-7 June 2013

Awards

2014 Australian Bicentennial Scholarship

2005 UTS Cultural Studies Travelling Award for Excellence in Cultural Studies

Visiting Fellow

2014 University of Technology Sydney, Transforming Cultures Research Centre (6 weeks)