The Artist
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 Lake Technology (now Dolby Australia). He became a Visiting Professorial Fellow and the Artistic Director of the subsequent AudioNomad Research Group in location-sensitive Environmental Audio at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (funded by the Australian Research Council and later established as a start-up company.
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Transformer
Read More: TransformerMy approach to the sonic domain has always been informed by a Sculptor’s perspective which emphasises the experiential nature of sounds, linking them to the dynamic, material events that produce them and situating them within the environments that contain and propagate them. Transformer installed at the Sculpture in the Valley Festival 2025. Transformer would appear… Read More
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Ariel@MQ
Read More: Ariel@MQLaser-cut acrylic, copper wire, theremin electronicsfootprint variable, individual units variable, maximum 0.75m x 0.6m diameterMacquarie University Art Collection – installed in the Jim Piper building (2025). Ariel consists of a series of eight laser-cut acrylic sculptures, all of which have a strong morphological relationship to microscopic marine forms sharing symmetry with the structure of primitive… Read More
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Sonic-Cartography
Read More: Sonic-CartographyOver the years I have had the pleasure of of collaborating with and contributing to the Art and Science international summer school conducted by Cultivamos Cultural in São Luís, Portugal. The summer school is hosted in an old farm house in a sleepy village, and whilst the creative research is focussed and serious the general… Read More
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Sounds and Sweet Airs
Post In: environmental project, Installation, interactive new media, Projects, public art, sound sculpture, UncategorisedRead More: Sounds and Sweet AirsSounds and Sweet Airs is part of a long-term web project Soniferous Cities; Islands of Sound that experiments with the creation of sonic cartographies. The project which is part of the Öres21 Summer Exhibition aims to create rich interactive audio-portraits of a range of geographies, environments and communities. Sounds and Sweet Airs links sites on… Read More
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The Sound of Place; Environmental Artworks at Bundanon.
Post In: Articles, arts and science, environmental project, Essays, interactive new media, public art, sound sculpture, TextsRead More: The Sound of Place; Environmental Artworks at Bundanon.This essay by Nigel Helyer and John Potts listens to the sound of place: of Bundanon, a three thousand acre property in the Shoalhaven river valley in rural NSW, Australia. Bundanon is today an artists’ colony and education centre, following the gift to the Australian people in 1993 of the entire property—including homestead, artist studio… Read More