Helen Dennis is originally from the UK and now resides in Brooklyn. Her public art installations have received awards from the Downtown Alliance of New York, and NoLongerEmpty. In 2007 Dennis was a Creative Capital Strategic Planning Fellow in the Emerge 9 program at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. She was awarded the Photographic Fellowship from The International House, NYC in 2003-4. Dennis has participated in various exhibitions worldwide and in the US with the support of the Queens Museum, Queens Council of the Arts, QMAD, Kent County Council, New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and South East Arts UK. She has participated in international art residencies with organizations in Beijing, Cyprus and Iceland. Dennis earned her BA (Honors) at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK and received her MFA degree from Hunter College in 2005.

My artwork is a hybrid of drawing and photography, challenging the conventional reading of a photographic image. Traditional darkroom processes are used to produce images, derived from drawings of architectural structures, which are not immediately recognized as photographic prints. The differing temporality of each medium utilizes the polarities between drawing and photography.

The environments depicted are in constant flux and contain an architectural element. The large scale photographic drawings are created on multiple layers, which are entwined into the photographic medium and held in time at the moment of exposure. The resulting mural-sized black and white images become filled with a nervous kinetic energy enhanced by their resemblance to urban environments. Their tension-filled architectural structures are given a deep perspective to draw the viewer in. These drawings' large scale allows a physical familiarity. They lead the viewer into an ambiguous temporal realm by focusing on the extended time of a single moment.