ABOUT

Helena Hunter works at the intersections of visual art, poetry and science. She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and is currently pursuing an AHRC-funded PhD in Critical and Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University in partnership with the University of Warwick. She lives and works in London, UK. Her practice incorporates fieldwork and laboratory studies with archival research and collaborative projects with scientists to investigate the critical ecologies of environmental change. She was recently an artist in residence at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and collaborates with sound artist Mark Peter Wright in her practice, Matterlurgy.

Helena was an Artist Associate for the Art, Technology, Society programme at Delfina Foundation in London, and has been nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Awards for Visual Artists and the Arts Foundation Award. Her work has been showcased internationally at venues such as the Wellcome Collection, Gasworks, Arts Catalyst, Tate Modern, ICA, LUX, and Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Onassis Stegi (GR), Bòlit Contemporary Arts Centre, Medialab Matadero (ES), and Titanik Gallery (FI).

Her publications include ‘Algae ecologies: an exploration of poetry and marine science methods across the lab and field’, Applied Phycology, 2025; Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age, Five Leaves Press, Ed. Sarah Jackson & Daniel Cordle, 2024; The Contemporary Journal, Ed. Canan Batur, 2022; MAP Magazine, Ed. Daniela Cascella, 2022; Reliquiae, Eds. Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton (Corbel Stone Press), 2020; MAI Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture, Eds. Rebecca Coleman, Tara Page, Helen Palmer, 2019; Alterity, Ed. Richard Skelton, 2019; and Something Other, Eds. Mary Paterson, Maddy Costa, Diana Damian Martin, 2018.