Bio and Statement

Born 1987, Seattle, WA. Helena Parriott works with painting, glass, and performance. She lives and works between Goias, Brazil, and Seattle, Washington. Her works have shown nationally and internationally, including VICTORI + MO, BRIC, BFP Creative, Centotto, and UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY, H.I. Space Gallery and Macklind Appliance, in St. Louis, MO, and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. She was guest artist at the Museum of Glass, in Seattle, WA, Tyler School of art, in Philadelphia, PA, Wheaton Arts, in New Jersey, and Zelezny Brod School of Glass in ZB, Czech Republic. In October she will be participating in the 15th International Glass Symposium (IGS); residency and exhibition in Novy Bor, Czech Republic.

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My studio is a place where I think to myself. While I am sorting out shards. I may reflect there, about all that I am, inside my mind plays the way I feel about things; my Joy, reconciliations, the horror, the realization of loss and time passed, the dialogues of my perception. I do as times ask questions of “myself”, like - Who is the one speaking? I find poetry comes in a form of consolation, for comfort not given, to soothe righteous indignation, to make sense of the senseless. Even if we descend into a state of thought policing, in art practice, in the organizing and outcomes, there are always personal truths exposed on a fundamental level - I beleive this proves some impenetrable resilience.