The Artist

Biography

Getting close and Personal. Each night I would have the same dream, I was four years old, lying awake, afraid to fall asleep, afraid to enter that inevitable landscape.  The ground surface was uniformly smooth, formed of dense iron plates extending to a featureless horizon line.  Roaring from this iron ground and billowing all around […]

Practice

Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. Dr. Sonique) is an Australian based Sculptor and Sound Artist with an international reputation for his large-scale sonic installations, environmental sculpture works and new media projects. His practice is actively interdisciplinary linking creative practice with scientific research and development.  His research activities include; the development of Virtual Audio Reality systems in collaboration with […]

CV

Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture Dr. Nigel Llwyd William Helyer Helyer_CV_19:04:2015.pdf sonic <@> sonicobjects.com sonique1 <@> icloud.com 62 MacGibbon Parade, Old Erowal Bay NSW 2540 Australia Mobile: +614 19 49 34 95 Mobile: +61 (0)4 19 49 34 95 Introduction: – The small Sussex fishing village in which I spent my childhood contained two significant buildings, […]

Consultancy

Consultancy In parallel to undertaking exhibition and public art projects, Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture applies its expertise and research network to the creative resolution of design and development problems. Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture offers consultancy services in the following areas. The design, development and construction of sound exhibits for Museums and Public spaces. Conceptual and […]

Research and Development

Early days: – The small Sussex fishing village in which I spent my childhood contained two significant buildings, significant not for their formal qualities, they were both simple cottages, but because one had been the home William Blake the poet, whist the other, Comet Cottage was named for the astronomer Halley. Without being conscious of […]