Helen S. Tiernan

(Bunurong / Gunai Kurnai) Helen S. Tiernan is of Irish and Indigenous heritage, born in Sale Victoria who recently moved to Fish Creek from Canberra. Helen says she has come home. Helen is an honours graduate from the Australian National University’s (ANU) Canberra School of Art who has distinguished herself as a painter of considerable eloquence, technical virtuosity, irreverence and humor, whose work stands at the forefront of Indigenous identity art and historical discourses today. She has major works of exploration and navigation featured in the permanent exhibition displays of the National Maritime Museum Sydney, Parliament House ACT, and the National Museum Australia.

Helen’s Studio Gallery: 46 Old Waratah Rd, Fish Creek. m 0412 999 824 Represented Galleries: Lauraine Diggins Melbourne; Adrian Newstead Gallery Sydney