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Helen Storey Foundation (HSF) is a multi award winning London based not for profit arts organisation, inspiring new ways of thinking across art, science, design and technology.

Incorporated in 1999 by former fashion designer and artist Professor Helen Storey MBE and her long term business partner and producer Caroline Coates, the Foundation's work is project funded.

How HSF came to be
The Helen Storey Foundation was created in response to Primitive Streak, a science-art collaboration elucidating eleven key events in human embryonic development. The project was originally funded as part of the Wellcome Trust's Sciart initiative, aimed at bringing together the sciences and the arts. Primitive Streak made its debut at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1997. The exhibition has since gone on to win two awards, toured in seven countries and seen by five million people.

Projects
Since 1999, the Foundation has collaborated with many partners including Creative Partnerships, alongside whom Helen Storey Foundation worked to devise new models of learning using creative environments and artistic output.

HSF has also collaborated with many scientists and has created eight international touring projects, notably Primitive Streak, Wonderland   and Eye and I, described in the New Scientist as 'a new wave in art/science collaborations'.

The Foundation's current major project is Catalytic Clothing, which was instigated by Professor Helen Storey and Tony Ryan in 2008,    and other work.

Awards
Wellcome Trust

NESTA

Winner of the Condé Nast Traveler Award, for Best Design & Innovation for the Catalytic Clothing Project (Sustainability category) 2012

Design Council

Arts Council

External Sources

 * Helen Storey Foundation website
 * Primitive Streak website
 * Catalytic Clothing website