Helen Morse Palmer is a freelance artist. She devises and performs regularly with Station House Opera and is an Associate Member of the Live Art Garden Initiative. She has collaborated with John Deller to form the Lookoutpost Artists Group. Since 2008 she has worked part time as a Community Artist for Epping Forest District Council. Helen holds a first class honours degree in Fine Art from Reading University, and an M A in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. For a current C.V please look to the subheadings on your right.

'What lies between the arts is theatre.'

- Michael Fried

'We have tended to fall between two stools, between people who want to see theatre and people who want to see performance art without any wry self-consciousness.'

- Julian Maynard Smith, Station House Opera


Helen Morse Palmer is facinated by all things theatrical. She uses her practice to appropriate and displace established signifiers - the icon of the wedding dress, the red dot sold sticker on an artwork, the face of a clown - to expose and question the theatricality of daily living, and to highlight and challenge the motives and structures behind an event.



Tear Catchers. Live Art/Sculpture. 2009.