Helga Dóróthea Fannon is an Icelandic-British moving image artist. She graduated from Wimbledon College of Art (Print and time-based media) in 2015 and completed her masters (Moving Image) at the Royal College of Art in 2021.
Using fiction, sound, and writing as narrative devices, her work borrows from phenomenology, mythologies, nature and her own disparate ancestral histories to navigate the weaving in and out of dreams, confessions, the historical, the lost and found. Creating tender and often beguiling links between these and other narratives, both found and imagined.
Helga Dóróthea Fannon Born 1984 Gothenburg, Sweden. Lives and works in London. www.helgadorothea.com
MA, Moving Image, Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London. 2019 - 2021 BA Hons, Print and Time-Based Media, Wimbledon College of Art, London. 2013 - 2015
Awards/residencies
Verbier 3-d Foundation, Verbier, Switzerland, 2023. Looping the Loop, Micro commission (M)other, Margate, Winner Poetry Film Festival 2022. Jerwood 1:1 Award, 2021Bursary, Productions 1927, 2021 Bursary, Freerange “the Disappearance Project“, 2021. Public Memory Project, Chelsea College of Art and the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei. 2015
Exhibitions/Performances/Screenings. Lethbridge Independent Film Festival, Canada. Stitch and Remix film showcase, Rich Mix Cinema, London Fall Film Poem Sampler, Beaconsfield Gallery, London Gwanju Biennalle, Spectres of being, South Korea. MOVIES FOR THE APOCALYPSE, SET Vault, London. Scai the Bathhouse, ceremonies and rituals, moving image piece, Tokyo, Japan Ruthin International Arts Festival, Wales, England Futur shock, Violent Dreams, FOLD, London Futur shock, Another Day of Gravity, FOLD, London Re_creation, CBSO Centre, Birmingham, UK.2023 Failed transcendence, Max Goelitz, Munich, Germany Verbier 3-d Foundatio, performance and film, Verbier, Switzerland |||, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Sphere festival, M3:G3 Arts Culture Festival, New Delhi, Liquid gold studios, through the window, London Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, South end on sea A citizen of Paradise, Ambar Quijano, London. RCA Degree show, Cromwell House, London The table Exhibition, The Swiss Church London Miasma, Neverland Cinema, Rotterdam Film festival Celluloid Traces, London ShortFilm Festival, ICA, London. Gagarin, Ramsgate tunnels, UKCineCut ShortFilm Festival, Bucharest.Raining Stones, Pie Factory, Margate, UKMoving Image Margate, POW!, Margate House, UKAltered states, Electro Studios - St Leonards on Sea, UKLondon Analogue festival, Bargehouse, London, UK
Publications/writing/online
Shaped by memory: The power of recollection and the importance of forgetting
from the personal and domestic to the inanimate and abandoned (Academia.eu)2021
https://issuu.com/helgadorothea/docs/shapedbymemory.helgafannon.laura.correct
Helga Dorothea Fannon RCA 2021
https://2021.rca.ac.uk/students/helga-fannon/
Haroon Mirza Explores Spiritual Frequencies
https://www.frieze.com/article/haroon-mirza-ceremonies-and-rituals-2024
The Quietus, Sampler 1, Various Artists.
https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/outputs-sampler1-haroon-mirza-mariana-simnett-rosa-barba-cory-arcangel-review/
Failed transcendence.
https://kubaparis.com/submission/348676
https://autre.love/journal/2023/9/8/traditional-markers-of-success-are-questioned-in-failed-transcendance-max-goelitz-in-munich
Ramsgate Recorder, In the Frame, interview 2021
https://www.helgadorothea.com/blog/2021/5/17/article-in-the-ramsgate-recorder
https://issuu.com/helgadorothea/docs/portfolio2
BBC Radio Kent, interview (link available upon request), 2021
Teaching
Mentoring, students at University of the Arts, London. Ongoing