Helen Eager

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Helen Hodges Eager (born 27 September 1952, Sydney, Australia)[1] is an Australian painter and printmaker. Her work 'Tango' was selected for the Inaugural Circular Quay Foyer Wall Commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney in 2011.[2] An initial temporary site-specific commission, 'Tango' is now permanently on display in a new location at MCA.[2] Eager's paintings and lithographs are held in national and state collections, including National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia.[3][4]

Education[]

Eager first studied art at the South Australian School or Arts in Adelaide from 1972 to 1975. Accepting a Visual Arts Board Grant for study in Europe and United States; she studied at Kala Art Institute, from 1981 to 1982.[5] She completed her Masters of Visual Arts at College of Fine Art, New South Wales in 1990, and an artist residency at the Greene Street Studio, New York, in 1988.[6]

Early work[]

Eager first became known for her paintings of familiar objects such as chairs, tea cups and vases. Manipulating colour and light, "her art makes us more responsive to, and even wary of, otherwise benign interiors."[7]

More recently, Eager works in abstraction. Her compositions explore links between shapes. For ten years those shapes were triangles,[6] although the shapes are currently multi-sided. The interplay between colour and light recurs in Eager's abstract work.[2]

Exhibitions[]

Eager held solo exhibitions at Sydney's Watters Gallery between 1977 and 1991[5] and Utopia Gallery from 2009.[6] Other solo exhibitions were held in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide.[5]

As a print-maker and painter, Eager has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Tokyo Print Biennale, Japan, 1979, 'Sydney Contemporary, 2019', Carriageworks, Sydney.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Helen Eager". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Circular Quay Foyer Wall Commission | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  3. ^ Eager, Helen Hodges. "not titled [seated figure, table and building]". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Artists: Helen Eager". NGV. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Germaine, Max (1991). A dictionary of women artists of Australia. Roseville East, NSW, Australia: Craftsman House. p. 126. ISBN 976-8097-13-2. OCLC 26591029.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Helen Eager | utopia art sydney". www.utopiaartsydney.com.au. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Women's Art Register Bulletin". Trove. 1988. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
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