Represented by Utopia Art Sydney, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017
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| 1972-75 | South Australian School of Art, Adelaide. Dip Fine Art |
| 1980 | Travelled and worked in America and Europe assisted by VAB Travel Grant |
| 1986-1990 | College of Fine Arts, U.N.S.W., M.A. Visual Arts |
| 1988 | VACB Residency in New York |
| 2009 | 'Tripartite', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
| 2005 | 'New Directions', Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 2003 | 'Precipice, New Paintings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 2000 | 'On the Edge, new work', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1999 | 'Transformed, a survey' 1990-1999, Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1998 | 'Angle, new paintings' Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1996 | 'Connections, new paintings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1995 | 'Transit new prints and drawings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NS |
| 1994 | 'Eclipse of the moon new paintings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1992 | 'Searching the Shadows', Watters Gallery Sydney, NSW |
| 1990 | 'From an Old House in America', large works on paper, Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1989 | 'Works on Paper', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1988 | 'Ceremony', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Performance', Milburn & Arte, Brisbane, QLD | |
| 1987 | 'Prints and Drawings Anima Gallery', Adelaide, SA |
| 1986 | Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD | |
| 1984 | Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD |
| 'Light Charms', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1983-1984 | 'Helen Eager Prints and Drawings', Orange Regional Gallery and toured N.S.W. Regional Galleries |
| 1983 | 'Out of Time, drawing and prints', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1981 | 'Recent Works on Paper', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Prints and drawings', Miller Gallery, Perth, WA | |
| 1979 | Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1978 | Pinacotheca, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1977 | Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 2011 | ‘AAA – Australian Abstract Art’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 2010 | ‘KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair’, COEX, Seoul, Korea |
| ‘in [two] art’, the Agapitos/Wilson Annual, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW | |
| ‘Ascent into Infinity’, Delmar Gallery, NSW | |
| ‘Museum III’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC | |
| ‘The Catalano Collection’, Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC | |
| 2009 | 'The 23rd Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition', New England Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'pinned & framed', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| '2009 Korean International Art Fair', CO-EX, Korea | |
| 2008 | 'pairs of paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Australian Abstraction', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Melbourne Art Fair 2008', Royal Exhibition Building, VIC | |
| 2007 | 'Sydney Prints; 45 Years of the Sydney Printmakers', Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Liz Coats - time and motion, Helen Eager - plains to mountains, Peter Maloney - electric planchette', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Turning 20', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW | |
| 2006 | 'Sydney Prints; 45 Years of the Sydney Printmakers', S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Robert Jacks Drawing Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Melbourne Art Fair 2006', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VUC | |
| 'Bits and Pieces abstract art', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW | |
| 2005 | 'from big things little things grow', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Sydney v Melbourne', Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Sydney Art on Paper Fair 2005', Bryan Kennedy Hall, Moore Park, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Museum II', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW | |
| 2001 | 'Abstraction Spirit, Light, Pure Form', Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 2000 | 'Summer Show', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'The Australian Drawing Biennale', Drill Hall Canberra, ACT | |
| 1999 | 'Summer Show', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Silver 25th Anniversary Exhibition', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1998 | Summer Show', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1997 | 'Summer Show', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award', Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC | |
| 'Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award', Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC | |
| 'Conrad Jupiters Art Prize', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Sufers Paradise, QLD | |
| '13th Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing', Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, VIC | |
| 'Sustainability Benefit Exhibition', Newcastle, NSW | |
| 'The Face Amnesty International Benefit Exhibition', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1996 | 'Jacaranda Drawing Award', Grafton, NSW |
| 'Floressence', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and touring Newcastle Region Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery, NSW | |
| 'Chromacryl Paint', exhibition Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Kedumba Drawing Prize Invitation Drawing exhibition', Leura, NSW | |
| 'Contemporary Australian Abstraction', Niagara Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1995 | 'Recent small works', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Women at Watters', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Ironside Benefit Exhibition for N.E.R.A.M', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'in the company of women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers Collection', P.I.C.A., Perth, WA | |
| 1994 | 'Home and Away: Domestic Icons and Daily Life as Art', Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD |
| 'The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1993 | 'Contemporary Australian Paintings: Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection', Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| 'Arrangement: Australian Still Life 1973-1993', Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1992 | 'Magaret Stewart Endowment', National Gallery Victoria, VIC |
| 'Munu et Mente', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1991 | 'Prints Galore', Wollongong City Gallery, NSW |
| 'Light', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Her Story', S H Ervin Museum, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Interiors', Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, QLD. | |
| Group Show, with Ron Lambert and Vicki Varvaressos', Waters Gallery, NSW | |
| 1990 | '1990 Collection: A Portfolio Of Australian Women Artists', Macquarie Gallery, NSW |
| 'Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Paper Works: Drawings, Watercolours, Pastels & Collages from the Wollongong City Collection', NSW | |
| 'The Rotary Collection', Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT | |
| 'Windsor & Newton Painting Prize', Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1989 | 'Intimate Drawing', Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Portrait of a Gallery', Watters Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, touring eight regional centres until 1991, NSW | |
| 'Work from the Studios of ... with Ian Bettinson, Robert Klippel, Richard Larter, Jon Plapp, & Vicki Varvaressos', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1988 | 'Tamworth Environs', Tamworth City Gallery and NERAM, Armidale, NSW |
| 'New Art', Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT | |
| 'A New Generation', Australian National Galley, Canberra, ACT | |
| 'First Australian Contemporary Art Fair', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1987 | 'Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition', AGWA and State Galleries |
| 'A New Romance', Australian National Gallery, ACT | |
| 1986-87 | 'Painters' Prints', The Mitchelton Print Exhibition, Benalla and Shepparton Art Galleries, VIC |
| 'NUSTART', Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QLD | |
| 1986 | Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1985 | 'Small Works', Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD |
| 'In all Directions', Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QLD | |
| 1984 | 'Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts from the Collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| 'Works on Paper', Campbelltown Art Gallery, NSW | |
| 1983 | 'Drawings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Australian Perspecta 1983', Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring, NSW | |
| 'The Printmakers Studio', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW | |
| 'Rooms', James Harvey Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'New Art, Selections from the Michell Endowment', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC | |
| 'Some Recent Australian Works on Paper', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW | |
| 'Some Quieter Statements', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1982 | 'Albury Purchase Award', Albury Regional Arts Centre, Albury, NSW |
| 'Helen Eager - Pastels, Christine Simons - Acrylics on Paper', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Printmakers of NSW', The Gallery, NSW House London, UK | |
| 1981 | 'Works from Kirktower House', Peacock Printmakers Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland |
| 'Seventh British International Print Biennale', Bradford, UK | |
| 'Capital Permanent Award', Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC | |
| 1980 | 'Drawn and Quartered', (Australian Contemporary Paperworks) Art Gallery of South Australia Festival Exhibition, Adelaide, SA |
| 'Interiors', Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1980-1981 | |
| 'Contemporary Australian Drawings and Prints', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW | |
| 1979 | 'Sixth British International Print Biennale', Bradford, UK |
| 'Tokyo Print Biennale', Tokyo Art Museum, Japan | |
| 'Art In The Making', Art Gallery of NSW and travelling 1979-1980 | |
| 1978 | 'Helen Eager, Leone Furber, Bernie Pask', CAS Gallery, Adelaide, SA |
| 'Still Life Still Lives', Glenfiddich exhibition, Opera House, Sydney and travelling | |
| 1977 | 'Watters at Pinacotheca', Pinacotheca, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1976 | 'NSW Printmakers', Contemporary Art Society Gallery, Adelaide, SA |
| 'NSW Printmakers', Contemporary Art Society Gallery, Adelaide, SA | |
| 'Outlines of Australian Printmaking', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC | |
| 1975 | 'Young Artists Award', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA |
| 'Members Exhibition'', C.A.S. Gallery, Adelaide, SA | |
| 1993 | Print Collaboration: printed and published Papunya Tula artists, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Joseph Jurra & Dinny Campbell and Gloria Petyarreye |
| 1992 | Imprint journal of the Print Council of Australia. Utopia Art Sydney Publishing Prints by Artists from the Desert |
| 1991 | Print Collaboration: printed and published Papunya Tula artists, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Joseph Jurra & Dinny Campbell |
| 1990 | Print Collaboration: printed and published The Utopia Suite: 72 Prints by 72 Artists, Utopia Community, NT |
| 1993 | Redesigned and painted set for the National Capitol Dancers, Canberra for the ballet 'The Host ' |
| 1990 | Collection: A Portfolio Of Australian Women Artists, Commission Cancer Council of NSW |
| 1989 | Designed and painted set for the National Capitol Dancers, Canberra for the Ballet 'The Host' |
| 1983 | Yulara Resort, Northern Territory, 1983: lithograph, edition of 50 |
| 1982 | Print Council of Australia, member's print |
| Albury Regional Arts Centre | Allens Arthur Robinson |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales | Art Gallery of South Australia |
| Artbank | National Gallery of Australia |
| Baker & McKenzie | Ballarat Fine Art Gallery |
| Bathurst Region Art Gallery | Broken Hill Art Gallery |
| Burnie Art Gallery, TAS | Campbelltown Art Gallery |
| Caufield Arts Centre, VIC | C.O.F.A. Sydney, NSW |
| Deakin University Library, VIC | Fremantle arts Centre, WA |
| Greenwood High School, WA | Griffith University, QLD |
| Holmes a'Court Collection | Hawthorn Institute of Education VIC |
| Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, QLD | LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre, VIC |
| Los Angeles M.O.C.A. Los Angeles, USA | Melbourne University, VIC |
| National Gallery of Victoria | N.E.R.A.M., Armidale, NSW |
| Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW | NSW Parliament House |
| Print Council of Australia, VIC | Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, TAS |
| State Bank, NSW | Tasmanian CAE |
| Tasmanian Art Gallery, TAS | Trinity Grammar School Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC | WESTPAC - New York |
| Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC | Wheelers hill High School, VIC |
| Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW |
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Australian National Gallery annual report 1985/6. Canberra: ANG, 1987. p 102 (Details of acquisition - drawing)
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Information bulletin, Art Gallery of NSW. Sydney, June, 1983. (Front cover photos of artist at work)
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Lynn, Elwyn. Weekend Australian. 6-7 June 1992 "Skeletons of the Human Insect"
Lynn, Elwyn .Weekend Australian. 11-12 January 1992 (Summer show Watters Gallery)
Lynn, Elwyn. "The fruits of female flair". Weekend Australian. 23/24 April, 1988. ("Ceremony", Watters)
Lynn, Elwyn, Weekend Australian. 4/5 March 1989. (Works on paper", Watters)
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Drawn and quartered: Australian contemporary paperworks Adelaide: Art Gallery of S.A., 1980. (Biography and statement)
First Australian contemporary art fair. Melbourne: Commercial Galleries Association, 1988.
Hammond, Victoria & Svetlana Karovich. Painters' prints: The Mitchelton print exhibition. Victoria: Benalla & Shepparton Art Galleries, 1986. (Biography and photo of work)
Her story: Images of domestic labour in Australian art. Sydney: S. H. Ervin Gallery, 1991.
Interiors, Travelling art exhibition 1980-1981. Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW, 1980.
Interiors. Tewantin, Qld: Noosa Regional Gallery, 1991. (Artist's comment)
Legge, Geoffrey. Helen Eager. Brisbane: Michael Milburn Galleries, 1984. (Biography, photos of work and artist)
Legge, Geoffrey. Moet & Chandon touring exhibition. Australia: State Galleries, 1987. (Biography and photo of work)
McPhee, John. A new romance. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1987. (Held at University Drill Hall Gallery.)
A new generation 1983-1988. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1988.
New release show. W.A.: Miller Gallery, 1981. (Biography, comments and photo of work)
Portrait of a gallery. Sydney: Watters Gallery, 1989.
Print award exhibition. W.A.: Fremantle Art Gallery, 1981.
Printmakers of NSW. London: The Gallery, NSW House, 1982. (Biography)
Prints from Kirktower House. Aberdeen, Scotland: Peacock Printmakers Gallery, 1981. (Exhibition details and photo of work)
Second Australian contemporary art fair. Melbourne: Commercial Galleries Association, 1991.
Seventh British international print biennale. Bradford: Cartwright Hall, 1981.
Sixth British international print biennale. Bradford: Cartwright Hall, 1979.
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NSW, 1979. (Biography, photos of 5 works, and of the printing steps)
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Still life still lives; the Glenfiddich exhibition. Sydney: Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1978. (Biography and photo of work)
Tamworth Environs. NSW: Tamworth City Gallery, 1988. (Photo of work, and artist, biography and statement)
Tokyo print biennale. Japan: Tokyo Art Museum, 1979.
Women's imprint, womens & arts festival. Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW, October, 1982. (Project 39)
Work from the studios of .....[6 artists]: Watters Gallery
Eager, Helen (and Margaret Dodd). Art in the making, the Art Gallery of NSW travelling exhibition. Adelaide: Educational Technology Centre, Education Dept, S.A., 1979. (28 slides, booklet)
Arts of NSW Vision & sound exhibition, held Darling Harbour. Chatswood, NSW: The Production Group, 1988. (5 slides of work)
Melon, James. Helen Eager. Victorian State Library, 1985, (interview with artist - audio recording)
Designed and painted set for "The Host", ballet performed by the National Capitol Dancers, Canberra, 1989. (Catalogue)
Artist gave talk at Allen, Allen & Hemsley, Sydney, 1990, about her works in the firm's collection. 4-page document includes biography, 13 photos of work.
Illustration for article on George Johnston & Charmain Clift. Agenda, Sydney Morning Herald, 6/10/86. p11