MPavilion Opening November 2020

Helen Pollard

Helen is the founder of Artea Art School, a creative space celebrating ART for all ages. She graduated from Lancaster University in England with a Fine Arts degree specializing in Painting and Printmaking in 2003 before coming to Australia. In 2008 Helen graduated her Masters of Art: Art in Public Space at the University of RMIT in Melbourne.

Over the past few years she has been establishing her artistic career through a variety of exhibitions, workshops and community projects throughout Victoria and internationally. These include exhibiting at Melbourne Art Show, The Publican Gallery, Chapel on Chapel; public art commissions in Prato, Italy, Xian, China and Sile, Turkey as well as laneway installations in the City of Dandenong, Box Hill, Heidelberg and Federation Square.

She is also the Curator for the City of Whittlesea Celebration Annual Exhibition for the past nine years. She has just graduated a Masters in Education and working as Youth Arts Officer developing programs for disengaged youths at Baseline Youth services.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.