Helen is an associate at Demos, leading, with Kitty Ussher, the Risky Business project, a piece of work examining risk in the creative industries.

From 2008 to early 2011 Helen was policy advisor to Culture, Creative Industries and Communications Minister Ed Vaizey MP. She continues to edit Ed's influential Weekly Email, a bulletin read by key individuals in the creative and media sector. With Damian Collins MP she runs the Conservative Arts and Creative Industries network with recent events hosted by Microsoft, MTV and the Premier League. From 2006 to 2008 Helen worked for Dance UK, establishing them as the lead lobbying organisation for the dance sector.

Helen has been a photographer and writer since 2001. She has been commissioned in a wide range of areas, from reportage to music and fashion, laterly specialising in portraits and art projects. She has travelled to Sri Lanka to photograph Tsunami projects for Help Age International and Mumbai to photograph Tim Supple's lauded production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. For two years she was first assistant to fashion photographer David Slijper, lighting and producing shoots for clients such as Vogue Italia, iD and Christian Dior. From 2001 - 2004 she was a regular contributor to music magazines M8, DJ, I-DJ and Mixmag, chronically the changing 00's London club scene.

She has an ongoing project exploring the relationship between movement, identity, space and emotion. The second series in this project, Skin on Skin, won an Association of Photographers Award in 2008.

Helen trained in photography at Central St Martins. She has worked in fashion, for Nicole Farhi, and in the music industry for Ministry of Sound and Slice PR.  She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford.
 
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Mar 23

A creative fix

Helen Burrows looks at what today's Budget means for the creative sector.