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Helen Saunders was born in Bedford Park, Ealing, London.

She studied at the Slade School of Art from 1906 to 1907, and later at the Central School of Art & Design.

She exhibited in the Twentieth Century Art exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1914, one of the first British artists to point in a nonfigurative style.

In 1915 she became associated with the Vorticists, signing their manifesto in the first edition of the literary magazine BLAST and contributing to their inaugural exhibition.

She and Jessica Dismorr were the only female members.