heather sheehan

heather sheehan

  • hello
  • artist statement
  • intro
  • selected works
  • current works
    • visual-verbal works
      • Sylta, the Whaling Widow Who Wails
      • One Woman, One Stone
      • Sharpless, Margaret
      • burlap poem video
      • 2021 box edition
      • live readings
      • installed texts
    • b & w photography
      • monograph
      • Self Portrait with Ear to Future & Past
      • In Muddier Years
      • Island- Burying the Dead
      • Washday on the River
      • Farm
      • Institutional
    • video + performance
    • textile installation + object
    • stitched drawings
    • on paper
  • earlier works
    • intro text
    • textile installation + object
    • on paper
    • photography
    • video + performance
  • about
    • biography en + de
    • interview texts
    • wikipedia english
    • wikipedia deutsch
    • cv
    • publications
    • videography
  • contact
'Visitors and other beings' installation view, 2011
City Museum of Siegburg, Germany
photo: Eberhard Weible
In collaboration with the Belgian photographer, Bart Michielsen, B & W portraits were shot with large-format camera to expand the impact of the miniature works: needle-sculpted textile objects made between 2004 and 2008. The strange presence and familiarity of these ‘visitors’ allows viewers to experience their individual capacity for empathy.


Copyright Heather Sheehan, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Authors and Photographers.