Helen Petts is an artist film-maker who explores rhythm, texture, sound and chance events, both in the landscape and in her long standing relationship with the free improvisation music community. A former television director of arts programmes, she now regularly shows her own art work at film and music festivals and in gallery installations, in the UK and internationally. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmith's College and Middlesex University and Film at Westminster University.
Passionate about music, she has collaborated with many leading free improvisation musicians including Phil Minton, Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, Roger Turner, Adam Bohman, Sylvia Hallett, Ute Wassermann, Okkyung Lee, John Russell. During the 5 years she was co-promoter of the Mopomoso series of concerts, with guitarist John Russell, her Youtube channel helentonix, devoted to the creative filming of free improvisation, developed a cult following and approaches 1m viewers.
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