Born in regional NSW and growing up in Newcastle, Helen Britton is an Australian artist who has lived and worked in Munich for over 20 years. After completing her MFA by research at Curtin University in Western Australia, with guest studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, and San Diego State University, California. Helen returned to study at the Academy of Fine Art, Munich, as part of a post-graduate study project and in 2002, established her own studio in Munich with David Bielander and Yutaka Minegishi. She is currently Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Helen has developed a reputation as one of the world’s most noted contemporary jewellers. Her work is informed by her experience of the vast and layered history reflected in the built environment, as she meticulously constructs pieces using precious metals, glass, stones and occasional collected components. As well, Helen’s work is a meditation on her own history as she engages with artefacts that act as powerful triggers to memory and association.

Major insitutional exhibitions of Helen Britton’s work have been presented at Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth (Interstices, 2017) and the Neues Museum, Nuremburg (The Things I See, 2013). She was awarded the Förder Preis of the city of Munich in 2013. Helen’s jewellery is found in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Neue Sammlung, Munich and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam among others.

In 2020 Helen was invited by the Bavarian Chamber of Crafts to curate Schmuck for the International handwerksmesse in Munich. In 2021 Elena Alvarez-Lutz released her documentary film Hunter from Elsewhere, A Journey with Helen Britton at Dok.Fest Munich.

Helen has been named by the Australian Design Centre as the next artist in the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series for 2025.