Helen Turner

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Helen Turner

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H.Turner@yorksj.ac.uk

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Expertise:

fine art, socially engaged practice, participatory performance, singer-songwriter, textiles, public art

Job title:

Subject Director, Fine Art, Illustration & Photography

Biography:

Helen Turner has a background in Public Art, with a specialism in Textiles and is experienced in arts project management often including community engagement. She has worked on several Arts and Health projects including work with people who use mental health services, care leavers and elderly patients. She has also delivered participatory arts projects in schools and informal educational settings on behalf of the REP theatre in Birmingham, MAC in Birmingham, ExCathedra Choir and others. Helen is also a Natural Voice Practitioner and half of the folk duo ‘Union Jill’. As a performer she uses ethnographic elements, which explore discourses from a feminist perspective as well as stimulating experimental pedagogy, including attempting to subvert the researcher (performer)-subject power dynamore...

Qualifications:

Fellow of HEA MSc Textile Technology for Textile Designers (distinction) BA(Hons)Fine Art with Education and Community Studies (first)

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Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544, Parks, Judith, Pugh, Vicki, Hurst, Lucy, Williams, Sarah, Odell, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6855-7214, Adekola, Olalekan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9747-0583, Jagdev, Manjinder, Turner, Helen, Nattress, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3296-4264, Byrom, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4519-768X, Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624, Galloway, Morag ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3103-0611, McCaleb, Murphy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9867-9909, Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Mason, Linda (2022) Living Lab: Learning at the Junction - REFLECTION REPORT. Project Report. Institute for Social Justice, York St John University, York.
Turner, Helen (2014) Bodies out of Place: Art, Activism, Feminism and Folk Music. Helen Turner.
Jagger, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3012-4755 and Turner, Helen (2020) The Female Music Producer and the Leveraging of Difference. In: Gender in Music Production. 1 ed. Routledge, pp. 251-267
Rowe, Nick, Jones, Colin H., Seeger, Lesley, Greaves, Gill, Holman, Cathy and Turner, Helen (2011) Forgetting the machine: patients' experiences of engaging in artwork while on renal dialysis. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 2 (1). pp. 57-72.

My Most Viewed

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1	The Female Music Producer and the Leveraging of Difference	112	256
2	Bodies out of Place: Art, Activism, Feminism and Folk Music	43	1