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Helen Pheby is Head of Culture, Heritage and Sport with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.[1] She was formerly Associate Director, Programme, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.[2] Dr Pheby was Vice Chair of the Civic art gallery and theatre in Barnsley;[3] the Chair of UP Projects, London (2019–22);[4] curatorial advisor to ArtRole in Iraqi Kurdistan and NIROX in South Africa. She is also a Cultural Fellow of York St John University and was an advisor to the Arts Council Collection Acquisition Committee (2016–17).[5] Dr Pheby is regularly invited to undertake international lectures and tours including Sculpture Dublin (2020); Park 3020, Ukraine (2019); the Contemporary Austin, USA (2017)[6] and as the guest of Creative India (2013).[7] Helen has collaborated with Selfridges since 2018 to curate the Duke Street entrance to their flagship London store.[8]
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Pheby's PhD thesis considered the social and economic benefits of access to culture and the barriers to that access.[9][10]
Pheby has worked with international partners to co-curate several offsite projects including the Kyiv Sculpture Project (2012).[11][12] In 2016 she curated 'A Place in Time' at the NIROX sculpture foundation in the UNESCO Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.[citation needed]
Pheby's 2016 exhibition 'Beyond Boundaries: Art by Email' in collaboration with ArtRole in Kurdistan-Iraq gave a platform to artists in the Middle East and North Africa whose political and other circumstances made it very difficult for them to travel to the UK.[13][14]
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