Melbourne book launch
Helen Britton - The Story So Far

Saturday 6 September, 1-3pm. All welcome.

With a limited number of 10 special editions | book + one-off insect brooch hand made by Helen Britton.
$800 each - first come first served.

The Story So Far is the first comprehensive overview of Helen Britton’s work designed by Alexandra Rusitschka and published by arnoldsche Art Publishers for Australian Design Centre’s Living Treasure: Masters of Australian Craft award.

In The Story So Far, Helen Britton reflects on her early creative influences through a detailed photographic investigation of the house of her late Great Aunt and Godmother Kath Carr on the Clarence river (Ngunitiji, Yaegl Country). Kath taught Helen how to paint on porcelain, make jewellery and create collages with pressed flowers or metal filings from the lathe in the shed. Kath’s house was full of wonders – shells, gemstones, driftwood, dried seaweed, fish – and when she died it was locked and left completely intact.

The book covers over 40 years of Britton's multidisciplinary practice and presents her extraordinary, often colourful and playful works. They evoke childhood memories while also addressing darker aspects of life, leaving the viewer to ultimately find their own meaning within them. Alongside large-format images of her works and the photographic essay 'My Godmother's House' are contributions by Lisa Cahill, Julie Ewington, Barbara Paris Gifford, Katie Scott, and Toni Greenbaum, the artist's own texts, and excerpts from the collected writings of Ted Snell and Robert Cook.