Helen 🇪🇺

Details from the studio. Constructing a large scale composite print necessitates testing first to see if the scale actually works. Photocopies stuck onto brown paper for strength is a cheap way of doing this. The computer screen always deceives.

Climbing roses growing wild up the trees and onto the mountain.

Doris walks ahead. I have always loved her spectacular coat.

Thanks everyone who came to HAPAX Living Room during the last 3 days. Great conversations and configurations, not all pictured here. @hapaxmagazine @cpmonarchi @chrystel_lebas @cheatlezelda @karen1knorr @steffiklenz @rodrigoorrantia @jermainefrancisstudio @dafnatalmor @annafox61 @sunilgupta7402 @random_access01 @gillordart @elizacbc @gdemczuk @pippahello @oonagrimes @nickstew_art @lesliehdowek @stuartoalexandro @eva_eicker @rachellwallis @terriweifenbach @jo.longhurst @danhayspurple @lucy_jrogers , Lucy Reynolds Hayley, Evaline …. What happened to everyone’s heads Instagram?

Hanging out in residence at Hapax Living Room @hapaxmagazine . Come and say hello.

Rose Wylie @royalacademyarts . Triumphant and very funny.

Many congratulations Amak for your wonderful exhibition @thephotographersgallery nominated for the Deutsche Börse photography prize. You have achieved so much in the years between our first meeting at what was then the University of Wales Newport where you completed your PhD. You were facing so many challenges travelling to and from Iran with your pictures but you persisted and continued to make work, become a mother and settle in the UK. Your exhibition is a testament to your sensitivity, and determination to make your dreams and the dreams of others tangible. @amak_mahmoodian

Last night

I have always found it a long road from the time spent on location to the construction of an image on screen to its resolution in print. So much to consider, scale, substrate etc etc. Tests and more tests.

Coming soon: Helen Sear: One Thing Next to Another (12.3.26 – 15.3.26) Helen Sear RA will be in residence at HAPAX Living Room from 12th-15th March, 2026 sequencing images for a book, making new connections between past and present work and looking at the spaces in between. Visitors are invited to the Living Room to meet with Helen and become ‘curator for the day’. Spread around the walls will be images from some of the artist’s recent projects, which you will be invited to move, group and re-arrange; resulting edits will be photographed and compiled into a special archive of multiple authors and voices, a multiplicity of links, readings and associations - the threads of a future publication and an invaluable parts of an artist’s creative practice. Location: HAPAX Living Room, 17 Empress Place, London SW6 1TT 12th March 6-8pm – Opening conversation: The Edit Please join us for an opening party and conversation with Helen in the midst of her installation in the Living Room. 12th – 15th March - Curator for the Day Helen will be in residence 12-4pm for discussions about her recent practice. Attendees are invited to re-arrange, mix up and sequence images on the walls for photographic documentation of this important part of an artist’s practice. Please email [email protected] to book in for a visit to this evolving work in progress, and make your curation over tea and coffee. 16th March – HAPAX Idea Snack with Helen Sear Join us for the next installation of our peer-to-peer artist meeting in the Living Room, with Helen Sear and HAPAX editors. Space is limited, booking coming soon via Eventbrite. Link in bio for more details or visit /living-room-exhibitions @hmsear #helensear #hapaxlivingroom

Finding prints from 1993 with @lucy_jrogers . This one was taken in Rome Zoo while I was an Abbey Awardee @britishschoolatrome and was part of a group of photographs Moments of Capture printed in the tiny darkroom we set up at the School.