Helena Tobin is an artist, curator and researcher based in rural Co. Tipperary. She is a graduate of the MA in Visual Art Practices, IADT and the BA in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art and Design. Through the use of mixed media and installation, Helena explores and questions structures of belief; and how these often hidden beliefs affect our idea of culture, our place in society and our concept of history.
In March 2019, Helena became the Artistic Director of the South Tipperary Arts Centre. She was co-founder of SITEATION, an artists’ collective and project space in Dublin (2012-2014), was an artist in residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival (2013) and worked as assistant curator at the Fenton Gallery (2003-2009) where she was also the assistant editor and project co-coordinator on the publication ‘Representing Art in Ireland’.
Her artwork is in the public collections of the OPW and Cork Institute of Technology.