Weekend Australian Review magazine article, August 29-30, 2009

This is a an excerpt from an article called "Young Modern" written by Christopher Allen, talking about the National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2009 that was held at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
"...The most explicitly sexual references are in Helen Rogers's series of self-portraits with wire appendages attached to her face. Her hair is pulled back tightly and her features almost obliterated with white stage make-up; her expression is blank with undertones of anguish. The wire structures are made in the form of stylised breasts and penises, and suggest ambivalences of identity and desire. As she writes: 'I am interested in the intangible and ambiguous nature of sexuality and the assumptions of gender and sex as binary...'