About

Helen O'Hara, Hoarders Art Room Mixed Media Art Cairn

Helen O’Hara is a mixed-media, textile artist and art educator living in Western Australia. Helen is mostly self-taught although she trained as a primary school art teacher before emigrating from the United Kingdom to Australia.

She loves combining materials and techniques and re-purposing objects, materials and tools in new ways unimagined by their manufacturers. Helen’s art often combines printing of many types with drawing, collage and stitch.

Themes include nature, geology, cosmology and architecture represented in abstract ways. Helen also enjoys art journaling as a kind of everyday therapy.

She is a real collector and hoarder of art materials and scraps and has named her blog “The Hoarders Art Room” after this trait.


Helen runs art workshops in her local community and is a member of several artists’ groups around Perth.

Exhibitions

2020 – COVID Quiltwest – Stirling Adriatic Centre – Perth, Western Australia

2019 – Contradiction and contrast – Zig Zag Gallery – Kalamunda, Western Australia

2019 – Quiltwest – Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre – Perth, Western Australia

2019 – WA Craft Show – Claremont Showgrounds – Perth, Western Australia

2019 – Stitched and Bound – Zig Zag Gallery – Kalamunda, Western Australia

2019 – Home – Wanneroo Gallery – Wanneroo, Western Australia

2018 – Community Art Awards – Wanneroo Gallery – Wanneroo, Western Australia

2018 – Quiltwest – Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre – Perth, Western Australia

2018 – WA Craft Show – Claremont Showgrounds – Perth, Western Australia

2017 – Quiltwest – Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre – Perth, Western Australia

2017 – Stitched and Bound – Zig Zag Gallery – Kalamunda, Western Australia

2017 – A walk in the Hills – Zig Zag Gallery – Kalamunda, Western Australia

2017 – Wanneroo Show – Wanneroo Showgrounds – Wanneroo, Western Australia

2 comments:

  1. Helen, it's like reading about myself! Thought I was the only one who hadn't made anything useful, due to my inability to measure or cut straight and understand complicated instructions for making garments....keep up the good work, I love it!

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  2. It was wonderful finding your site. I love the name. I started off calling my space a studio until my husband came in and found me torching a panting. He started yelling "you are going to burn the house down". That is when I changed the name to a Labortory, Then I was out there working on a project and took a look around and thought maybe I should be honest and just call it what it is. It is now called "The Hoarder's corner". Much better and to the point. I love many types of art work so I jave a vast amount of materials.

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