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Helen Charman

Irákleion, Shenyang

Commissioning Editor at MAP

I teach English at Clare College, Cambridge. MOTHER STATE is out now @AllenLaneBooks. I'm represented by Emma Paterson @AitkenAlexander 🤹🏻‍♀️

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Helen Charman

    How does Firestone’s text read, three decades after it was first published, in a world where popular understanding of ‘mental health’ has fundamentally changed? Shulamith Firestone’s Airless Spaces, the radical feminist writer’s collection of short stories, begins with a dream.

  • 1 month ago | vam.ac.uk | Helen Charman

    Across March and April, Young V&A kicked off Festival season with I AM Festival and Our Voice, Our Future: A Festival of Childhood. On Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 March, I AM Festival, organised in collaboration with A New Direction, brought deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent young people together at Young V&A to empower, celebrate and explore their creativity.

  • Mar 9, 2025 | vam.ac.uk | Helen Charman

    2025 got off to a flying start at Young V&A with the wonderfully inspiring – and busy – opening of Making Egypt, our second exhibition.  Why Making Egypt, here at Young V&A, you may well be asking yourselves. The reason being that, from ancient Egypt, along the river Nile, to contemporary Egypt, creativity was and is, everywhere.​ And creativity is at the heart of Young V&A.

  • Aug 14, 2024 | artreview.com | Helen Charman

    Duras’s cinema, restless and wilfully obtuse, interrogated the foibles of human expression in a world locked by politics and moneyCinema ‘knows that it can never replace the written text’, wrote the writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras in 1977; nevertheless, it ‘sets out to replace it’. It begins, in other words, with certain defeat and, sustained by this tension, makes its way from there. What does it mean to make a practice out of dissatisfaction, of failure?

  • Aug 3, 2024 | vam.ac.uk | Helen Charman

    I am delighted to share the wonderful news that after its first year of opening, Young V&A has been awarded the incredible accolade of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 – the largest museum prize in the world. Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for Museum of the Year.

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