Artists in residence

Helmie is an award-winning filmmaker. After graduating from the Utrecht School of Arts she has been researching, directing and producing her own films since 2006. She loves making poetic documentaries and film poems. Her award winning documentaries and film poems have been shown on national television and international film festivals. She is the director and founder of poetrycinema - films inspired by poetry. Click here to see Helmie’s HS projects.

An artist, a writer, a teacher. He dropped out of the College at the University of Chicago when he was twenty years old to move to New York City to attend art school and somehow ended up with a Ph.D. in Religious Ethics from Yale University and a job back at the University of Chicago as Associate Instructional Professor in the Humanities. He is still trying to figure out what happened. Click here to see Jeff’s projects at HS and here to learn more about Jeff’s work.

Lucas Canino is a freelance writer, photographer and videographer. He was trained as a journalist and a historian before landing on photography as his medium of choice. Click here to see Lucas’s HS project work.

Rita Conry is a London based video editor and director, working across beauty, fashion, music and documentary. She is the director of The UTI Documentary.

A.R. Hopwood makes art in response to psychological research into suggestion and misinformation. In 2019, he initiated and co-curated Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic at Wellcome Collection exploring how memory, perception and reasoning can be misdirected by charismatic performers. From 2013-2018 he toured his False Memory Archive internationally, including a public archive of ‘false’ memories, touring exhibition, book, music project, event series and scientific paper. Since 2003 he has also worked under the guise of WITH creating artworks that explore the psychology of self-deception.