Helen Eager

Helen Eager (born 27 September 1952, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian artist with an exhibition history of over 40 years. Her work 'Tango' was selected for the Inaugural Circular Quay Foyer Wall Commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney in 2011. An initial temporary site-specific commission, 'Tango' is now permanently on display in a new location at MCA.

Education Eager first studied art at the South Australian School or Arts in Adelaide from 1972 to 1975. Accepting a Visual Arts Board Grant for study in Europe and United States; she studied at Kala Art Institute, from 1981 to 1982.

From 1988 Eager work leaned more and more to abstraction. Her compositions explore links between shapes. For ten years those shapes were triangles, and Utopia Art Sydney from 2009. Other solo exhibitions were held in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide.

Eager was represented by Watters Gallery in the early part of her career. Since 2009 she has been represented by Utopia Art Sydney. Eager will hold an exhibition of work with Utopia Art Sydney in September and October 2024.

As a print-maker and painter, Eager has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Tokyo Print Biennale, Japan, 1979, and Sydney Contemporary, 2019, Carriageworks, Sydney. New England Regional Art Gallery. It will hold a career survey exhibition in October 2024

Vivid 2022

Eager was announced as creating a light work to be projected onto the Museum of Contemporary Art as a centerpiece of the Vivid 2021 Light Festival. Due to the Covid pandemic, Vivid was postponed from 2021 until 2022, opening May 27. The work New York Sunday was an 8.30 min long, constantly changing and morphing representation of Eager's career, accompanied by the electronic music of Peter Mac. It was described as "a sure crowd pleaser" and "one of the highlights of the Festival"

Media Eager was profiled in Art Collector and Artist Profile magazines in 2021. Her work from "Intersections" was used on the cover of Art Almanac in 2015

Critical Response According to John McDonald, art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald writing in the 2018 Good Weekend "there's no reason to hesitate" when considering acquiring an Eager work.