Helena (Jude) is a multi disciplinary creative artist and remedial massage therapist practicing in Central Victoria, Australia.

Her visual arts practice explores themes of identity, belonging, culture and place whilst her remedial massage practice focuses on relieving the pain caused by everyday stresses and complex trauma. 

These seemingly seperate disciplines overlap and intertwine within an emerging framework of entrepreneurial philosophies about individual, cultural and systemic change. 

Prior to her current practice Helena (Jude) worked for 25 years as an event production manager, freelance consultant and educator.  This diverse and eclectic toolbox of skills has seen her working in a range of highly diverse settings, from corporate mergers to prisons, schools, gold mines, festivals and theatres.   She has produced a wide range of projects from performance installations to regional touring events and international conferences, and was co-founder and director of the Awakening the Dreamer for Children program (ATD Kids).

“What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Projects of note include: ATD Kids Leadership program Beijing, China (2018).  Tetradian ecology of enterprise toolkit

I acknowledge that I live and work on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung peoples of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to their leaders and Elders, past, present and emerging.