I’m pleased to announce that my interview with Creative Bristol - Bristol Museums is now live and can be viewed here. In this video I talk about how we must encourage young people to become artists.
I am delighted to be the landscape garden for Henrietta’s Garden.
A landscaped public garden, centred on the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks, which is built upon and showcased within the names of the plants for their links to Henrietta and the significance of their colour.
Gardening brings joy to everyone. It’s about inclusion and bringing people together from all walks of life; different cultures, ages, abilities, and class.
Henrietta’s Garden is a symbol of hope and reflection. Through this symbol, stories are told using the narrative of plants and their connection with Henrietta’s statue and her everlasting story.
Thank you for the generosity of my friends and family for helping with the planting of the garden and for the amazing Bristol University Landscape, Horticultural team.
Image © Helen Wilson Roe
WHO honors 'mother of modern medicine' article published in the Daily Mail newspaper.
Statue of 'mother' of modern medicine unveiled in Bristol article published in the Bristol Post newspaper.
Statue Honours Black Woman Whose Contribution Changed Course of Modern Medicine article published in Bristol 24/7.
Statue of Henrietta Lacks makes history as it is unveiled article published in the Evening Standard newspaper.
For ‘unrecognised black women’: statue of Henrietta Lacks unveiled in Bristol article published in the Guardian newspaper.
As part of a worldwide event, my statue of Henrietta Lacks will be unveiled at University of Bristol.
Image © John Roe
My documentary 'A Brush with Immortality - Henrietta Lacks' will be shown on 11th and 18th March. Both screenings will be followed by Q&A
For more information click here
Helen Wilson-Roe’s sculpture celebrates a woman who unwittingly helped to transform medicine aricle published in The Times newspaper.
Hosted by the University of Bristol Be More Empowered for Success with support from the School of Biochemistry and the Inclusive Research Collective.
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I will be interviewed on Ujima Radio’s Saturday Breakfast Show today at 10 am with Sandra Green.
Listen live 98FM or www.ujimaradio.com
After a COVID-19 safe launch, I’m delighted to have two of my portraits currently on show outside the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building, Bristol.
Thanks to Bhagesh Sachania Photography www.bhagesh.photography
Henrietta Lacks, the Mother of Modern Medicine changed the world with the gift of her immortal HeLa cells. From gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, the polio vaccine, and cancer treatments to space travel - Henrietta’s cells are responsible for some of the greatest scientific advancements of our time.
August 1, 2020, will mark the 100th Birthday of this phenomenal woman. You are invited to join the Lacks family in celebrating Henrietta’s contributions at a three-day Symposium commemorating this momentous occasion.
Helen Wilson Roe’s artwork / part of a group exhibition Stroud.
Compiled by the Bristol Museums Black History Steering Group, Helen Wilson-Roe has been named as one of 19 Black Bristol women who have made a difference in 2019-20.
Pioneering, passionate and powerful, these women have helped change our city for the better.
From artists to activists-councillors to mayors, these are women who have made a difference.
For more information click here
Image: James Beck/Freelance
Six Glass Installation panels based on meeting the Lacks family and working with Bristol cell biologists Professor Craig McArdle, Professor Harry Mellor and Dr Jon Lane.
19 images of my paintings and National and International Artists work screened for a week in Millennium Square, Bristol curated by The Lord Mayor of Bristol, Cleo Lake.
Part of University of Bristol's Framing the Critical Decade: After the Black Arts Movement I'm excited to let you know that I will be a keynote speaker in conversation with Dr. Josie Gill (University of Bristol) on Monday 21st at 4:15-6pm.
This 2 day conference aims to bring together scholars from across the humanities, critics and artists to engage questions around ‘Black British-ness’ and Black British creative production during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Often perceived, and dismissed, as a by-product of the social, critical and political milieu of the 1980s, the Black Arts Movement in Britain has been, until recently, largely packed away as something no longer relevant in a global, multicultural, even post-racial world. Building on and responding to a growing interest in reassessing the role of the Black Arts Movement in the construction of contemporary ideas around race, national identity, gender and aesthetics (see recent exhibitions such as Thin Black Line(s) (Tate, 2012), Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience (V&A and Black Cultural Archives, 2015) and Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain (Tate Liverpool, 2014) and the opening of the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton), the conference asserts the continued and dynamic presence of the ‘Critical Decade’.
It is the organisers’ aim that by bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines – art, the history of art, visual culture, literature, history, critical theory and sociology, to name a few – the conference will yield new ways of thinking about narratives of creative production in Britain at the turn of the twenty-first century.
In association with the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster, History of Art Department, University of Bristol
A Brush With Immortality is a mixture of graphic elements, 3D forms and painting.
The exhibit was successfully installed in the Wellcome Wing and opened to the public on October 16th as part of the Who Am I? gallery.
