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 and Gothenburg
MA, Moving Image, Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London. 2019 - 2021
1st Class BA Hons, Print and Time-Based Media, Wimbledon College of Art, Central St Martins, London. 2013 - 2015
Awards/residencies
Þórsmörk residency, Norðurfjörður, Iceland.
Hold Recidency, Ramsgate, UK.
DYCP award, Integrating VR and Digital Archives to Advance my creative Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice London, UK, 2025.
Verbier 3-d Foundation, Verbier, Switzerland, 2023.
Looping the Loop, Micro commission (M)other, Margate, UK.
Winner Poetry Film Festival, Hollywood/Santa Barbara, California, 2022.
Jerwood 1:1 Award, 2021.
Bursary, 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
2026
Hold studios, solo exhibition, keeping them othered, Ramsgate, England.
Weareaia, Cymatic performance, Zurich Art week, Switzerland.
Deep focus, Terrains, Goldsmith Cinema, London, UK.
Performance, Adam and Eve and a ufo, The Firestation, Doha, Qatar.
2025
Blackie House Library + Museum exhibition, UK,
Shapeshift the screening, curated by Maz Murray, Genesis cinema, London, UK.
Lethbridge Independent Film Festival, Canada.
Stitch and Remix film showcase, Rich Mix Cinema, London.
Performance Corsica studios, London
2024
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.
MOVIES FOR THE APOCALYPSE, Set Vault, 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
2022
Sphere festival, M3:G3 Arts Culture Festival, New Delhi, India
Liquid gold studios, through the window, London
2021
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, South end on sea, UK
A citizen of Paradise, Ambar Quijano, London.
RCA Degree show, Cromwell House, London
2019
The table Exhibition, The Swiss Church London, UK
Miasma, Neverland Cinema, Rotterdam Film festival, Ntherlands
2018-2015
Celluloid Traces, London ShortFilm Festival, ICA, London. 2018
Gagarin, Ramsgate tunnels, UK
CineCut ShortFilm Festival, Bucharest.
Raining Stones, Pie Factory, Margate, UK
Moving Image Margate, POW!, Margate House, UK
Altered states, Electro Studios - St Leonards on Sea, UK
London 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