Biographies

De Main & Hasager

Helen de Main (UK) and Main Hasager (DK) have been working together as artists and curators since 2007. They exhibited a collaborative work, Buy-Buy at the Barras Market, Glasgow (2007), curated 2 video screenings for Video Killed the Painting Star, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2007/8) and curated and produced the project Cast Some Light for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (2008) - www.castsomelight.net

They have been working collaboratively to develop the concept for the project Between Here & Somewhere Else since 2008 and it’s accompanying series of events and educational workshops, whilst simultaneously producing individual bodies of work.

Helen de Main (UK)

Helen de Main is a British artist based in Glasgow. She studied sculpture and fine art in England and Scotland, completing her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2008.

She works predominantly in sculpture and installation, producing objects, and creating situations. Most of her work originates directly from observations of her surroundings, using these as the starting point for making her own objects; altering scale and material, and bringing in human characteristics to what were once inanimate, as a means of investigating our physical and emotional relation to them. She is interested in public space and architecture and the relation these have to power, movement and control within in urban and rural environments.

Her work has recently been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including Glue Factory, Glasgow (2010), New Life, Glasgow (2010), Northcabin, Bristol (2009), SWG3, Glasgow (2009), ReMap, Athens (2009), Artnews Projects, Berlin (2008), akau inc., Toronto (2006), Galerie 5020, Salzburg (2006), and Site Gallery, Sheffield (2006).

Recent grants and awards have included research and development awards from Scottish Arts Council, British Council, Arts Trust Scotland and a Creative Initiative Award from Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. She has undertaken a number of residencies connected to Between Here & Somewhere Else, including Danish International Visiting Artists Exchange Programme, A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah and the Danish Art Workshops Copenhagen, Denmark. 


For more information about her work, please visit www.helendemain.net

Maj Hasager (DK)

Maj Hasager is a Danish artist currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has studied photography and fine art in Denmark, Sweden and in the UK, and she completed her MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden in 2008.

Her work deals with ideas of power structures, identity, memory, construction of history, architecture and how these are interlinked and interpreted culturally, spatially and through representation. Her artistic approach is research-based and interdisciplinary, working predominantly in text, sound, video and photography.

She has exhibited her work internationally both in galleries and in the public realm including Future Movements, Liverpool Biennial (2010); Landings, Norway (2009); Limited Access, Parkingallery, Tehran (2009); Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art (2009), Copenhagen; A farewell to post colonialism - The Third Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); A Public Affair - Gallery 21, Malmö (2008); LOOP Film festival, Barcelona (2008); EMERGED Space, Glasgow (2007); KargArt festival in Istanbul (2007).

She is the recipient of several international residencies, and in 2009 she undertook four residency periods of research, one in Akureyri, Iceland, two at the A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah and one at The Danish Art workshops, Copenhagen, Denmark. Hasager has been awarded grants in support of her work from the Danish Arts Council, The Danish Arts Foundation, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, ArtSchool Palestine, Danish Centre for Culture and Development and the Danish Arts Agency.

Since 2007 she has spent a significant amount of time in Palestine and Israel, both researching for independent film/photo projects, and delivering creative workshops. She is teaching at the International Academy of Art – Palestine, Dar al-Kalima College, Bethlehem and occasionally writes essays, catalogue texts and articles.

For further information, and samples of work please visit www.majhasager.net