Mercedes Helnwein
Mercedes Helnwein is a daughter of artist Gottfried Helnwein, who has lived in Ireland since 1997 and is an Irish citizen. She lived in Ireland from 1997 to 2002, and now lives mainly in Los Angeles, with occasional lengthy visits to the family home of Gurteen Castle, Co. Tipperary. Mercedes Helnwein's art debuted in 2003, with her first group exhibition hosted in Los Angeles by actor Jason Lee. She contributed art to the 2006 Beck album, The Information. In 2010 Damien Hirst acquired the entire work of Helnwein's 'Whistling Past the Graveyard' show in London. Heinwein also works in photography and film and as a writer, her first novel The Potential Hazards of Hester Day was published in 2008. www.whytes.ie