Helen Stratford Born 1972 in Bath (UK)

Education /Training

2003 RIBA PART III University of Cambridge, School of Architecture

1998 – 2002 MA Architecture and Critical Theory University of Nottingham

1996 – 1998 RIBA PART II / Diploma in Architecture University of Cambridge

1991 – 1994 RIBA PART I / First Class BA Hons. Architecture University of Sheffield

Since 1998 Professional architectural practice London / Cambridge

Prizes Pilkington Prize for Building Science, Robert Cawkwell Prize in Architectural History

Residencies /Research /Teaching

2012 Children Take the Lead: researching with children & their families how visitors can enjoy

contemporary art: Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination: Kettle’s Yard /Wysing Arts Centre

2011 Selected Escalator Live-Art Artist: Arts Council England

Curious Live Art Retreat, Ipswich

2010 Selected Escalator Visual Artist Arts Council England, Wysing distribution retreat

2007 – 12 taking place 6: The Other Side of Waiting: Routine Procedures curated public arts project,

Homerton Hospital Hackney, London, www.takingplace.org.uk

2009 Communities Under Construction Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2008 Enquiry Schools: Arts Council Creative Partnerships commission with artists

Townley & Bradby, Bradfield Primary School, Manningtree

2007 From Little Seeds: Arts Council Creative Partnerships commission with artist Sally Brown,

Leicester Imperial Avenue Infants and Leicester City Gallery

2006 Creative Consultant: Aldegate Public Realm Strategy, General Public Agency, London

Creative Constructions: Creative Partnerships, Ravenscroft Infants, Clacton

2005 – 06 Talk about Tomorrow: Shape East/Centre for Creative Imagination, Creative Partnerships,

with artist Sally Brown & Spring Meadow Primary School, Harwich

2004 – 05 9-month Residency Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2003 – 04 Inspirer: Immersive Learning Project, Cambridge/Tate Modern, www.accessart.org.uk.

1999 – 00 lecturer ‘Architecture and Society ’ Winchester School of Art, BA Visual Arts

HELEN STRATFORD CV

Helen Stratford Born 1972 in Bath (UK)

Education /Training

2003 RIBA PART III University of Cambridge, School of Architecture

1998 – 2002 MA Architecture and Critical Theory University of Nottingham

1996 – 1998 RIBA PART II / Diploma in Architecture University of Cambridge

1991 – 1994 RIBA PART I / First Class BA Hons. Architecture University of Sheffield

Since 1998 Professional architectural practice London / Cambridge

Prizes Pilkington Prize for Building Science, Robert Cawkwell Prize in Architectural History

Residencies /Research /Teaching

2011 Performative Architectures - ACE funded development grant via Escalator Live Art.

Curious Live Art Retreat, Ipswich

2010 Arts Council England selected Escalator Visual Artist distribution retreat

2007 – 2010 taking place 6: The Other Side of Waiting: Routine Procedures curated public arts project,

Homerton Hospital Hackney, London, www.takingplace.org.uk

2009 Communities Under Construction Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2008 Enquiry Schools: Arts Council Creative Partnerships commission with artists

Townley & Bradby, Bradfield Primary School, Manningtree

2007 From Little Seeds: Arts Council Creative Partnerships commission with artist Sally Brown,

Leicester Imperial Avenue Infants and Leicester City Gallery

2006 Creative Consultant: Aldegate Public Realm Strategy, General Public Agency, London

Creative Constructions: Creative Partnerships, Ravenscroft Infants, Clacton

2005 – 2006 Talk about Tomorrow: Shape East/Centre for Creative Imagination, Creative Partnerships,

with Sally Brown & Spring Meadow Primary School, Harwich

2004 – 05 9-month Residency Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2003 – 04 Cambridge/Tate Modern, Inspirer: Immersive Learning Project, www.accessart.org.uk.

1999 – 00 Winchester School of Art, lecturer ‘Architecture and Society ’ BA Visual Arts

Selected exhibitions & installations (since 2006)

2010 CUBEOpen 2010 Manchester CUBE Gallery with Diana Wesser

Wysing Arts Contemporary: Partnering with Diana Wesser

2009 Communities Under Construction group exhibition, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2006 DiverCity group exhibition, Royal Institute of British Architects, Cambridge /London

Compendium assistant curator, Royal Institute of British Architects, London

HELEN STRATFORD CV

Selected exhibitions & installations (since 2006)

2011 Ideas from the Isle: design & implementation: MOLE Architects exhibition, Babylon Gallery, Ely

2009 Routine Procedures: Post-natal ward installation: Homerton Hospital Hackney, London

Communities Under Construction group exhibition, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2006 DiverCity group exhibition, Royal Institute of British Architects, Cambridge /London

Compendium assistant curator, Royal Institute of British Architects, London

Selected Events (since 2007)

2011 Approaching Art performative tour Camberwell School of Art, commission

2010 taking place 7: performative lecture with taking place, Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics

and Ethics interdisciplinary event UCL, London, December 2010

2009 Not Building lecture Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana December 2009, www.obrat.org/archives/204

Mechanical Operations in Cambourne launch & performance presentation,

with Lawrence Bradby, ICA London

2008 In-between House and Home performative lecture, The Arts Theatre, Cambridge

Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Feminism is on the Agenda* Follow up discussion ICA, London, Nought to Sixty Salon

Feminism is on the Agenda Public works studio, London, co-hosted Friday Session 28

2007 Form Trans Inform: the ‘poetic ’resistance in architecture presentation with Doina Petrescu

and Constantin Petcou, Sheffield University, Alternate Currents Symposium,

November 2007, http://altpraxis.wordpress.com/

Publications (since 2007)

2010 Mechanical Operations: Repetitive Actions as a Creative Force in New English Settlements

in Surface, YH485 Press, www.YH485press.org with Lawrence Bradby

2009 Mechanical Operations in Cambourne with Lawrence Bradby, Marmalade London.

www.filmarmalade.co.uk

In Between House and Home in Verhaltene Beredsamkeit? Politik, Pathos und

Philosophie der Geste, Veronika Darian ed., Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main

2008 In Between House and Home “A question(ing) of gesture ” Fotohof edition catalogue

Form Trans Inform: the ‘poetic ’resistance in architecture in conversation with

Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou, Architecture Research Quarterly.

2007 Performing with Buildings: A review of the work of Diana Wesser

Journal of Media Practice 8, Intellect Books.

Micro-Strategies in Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space

Doina Petrescu ed., Routledge, London.

HELEN STRATFORD CV