Helen Eager
Helen Eager
Site, 1988
Helen Eager (born 1952)
relief woodcut on Japanese paper, edition of 15
95 x 63 cm (frame 125 x 91 cm)
editioned, signed and dated in pencil lower left within image
Provenance: Watters Gallery, Sydney
Exhibited: Helen Eager, Colour and Light, Utopia Art, Sydney 24th Mar- 28th Apr, 2012 (another image).
$250 (unframed)
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Helen Eager was born in Sydney and studied at the South Australian School of Art in the 1970s. She had an artist residency at the Greene Street Studio, New York, in 1988 and completed her Masters of Visual Arts at College of Fine Art, NSW in 1990. Eager held solo exhibitions at Sydney's Watters Gallery between 1977 and 1991 and Utopia Art Sydney from 2009. Other solo exhibitions were held in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. As a print-maker and painter, Eager has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Tokyo Print Biennale, Japan, 1979, and 'Sydney Contemporary, 2019'. In 2012, Eager was commissioned to create a wall painting for the circular quay entrance of the new Museum of Contemporary Art building. Eager’s work is included in all of Australia’s major public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of SA and National Gallery of Victoria.