November 14 - November 18

Step into the captivating world of renowned Australian artist Helen Britton. Known for her vivid, fantastical, and exquisitely made jewelry and objects, this exhibition is an opportunity to see her pieces up close. Including jewelry, works on paper, and objects, this solo exhibition culminates her project, Crazed Slobbering Monster, a fantastical and absurdist menagerie that will intrigue and charm you.

About the Gallery

Sienna Patti Contemporary is one of the most prominent design and jewelry galleries in the world and stands as the leading purveyor of and educator on studio jewelry. Founded by Sienna Patti in 1998, Sienna Patti Contemporary works with both emerging and established contemporary artists who use craftsmanship as an intellectual and structural vehicle through which to share ideas and bridge the world of art, craft and contemporary design with innovative use of material and mediums. The gallery presents a multitude of group and solo exhibitions each year and exhibits at some of the leading art and design fairs worldwide.

Sienna Patti Contemporary artists are found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Smithsonian Institution, D.C; Museum of Art And Design, New York; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Musée de Louvre, Paris; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and more.

About the Artist

Helen Britton is a multidisciplinary Australian artist based in Munich, Germany. Her practice includes jewelry, sculpture, drawings, stencils, and installations, and is informed by popular culture and folk art, threatened traditions, environmental destruction, and human anxiety.

Helen completed a Master of Fine Arts by research at Curtin University, Western Australia 1999, which included guest studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, and San Diego State University, California. In 1999, she returned to Munich to complete postgraduate study at the Academy of Fine Arts. 2002, she established her studio in Munich with David Bielander and Yutaka Minegishi. In March 2011, Helen Drutt-English launched a new catalog of Helen Britton’s work in Munich. In 2013, at the invitation of The Neue Sammlung, Munich, an overview of 20 years of Helen’s work was shown as a solo exhibition in the Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany. In 2017, Helen was invited to create the exhibition “Interstices” at The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, Western Australia – a complete overview of her practice in conjunction with the Festival of Perth, including her large-scale drawing works, Ghost Train installation, and a selection of small sculptures and objects. In 2019, Helen Britton was made an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne. 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, Hunter from Elsewhere, A Journey with Helen Britton at Dok.Fest Munich. A comprehensive exhibition catalog of The Dark Garden was published by Prearo Editore and Galleria Antonella Villanova and released in 2022. In October of 2023, Helen was selected as the next artist for the exhibition series Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft.