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Helen Beard

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b. 1971, United Kingdom

Born in Birmingham, England in 1971, Helen Beard is an artist who works in various disciplines including paint, collage, tapestries and sculptures.

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Beard’s paintings use a vivid rainbow palette to create interlocking arrangements of bright primary colour, which combine to describe explicit sexual encounters. Working from found images, Beard’s work explores themes relating to gender, sexual psychology and eroticism. Situated part way between abstraction and representation, her figures are reduced to concisely defined fields of vibrant colour, on which a myriad of varied brush marks remain visible. As a feminist, she is unapologetic for female desire and takes back ownership of sexual imagery from the predominantly male gaze. The work is, at heart, a celebration of the life affirming nature of sex.

In 2017 she was included in the group show Simulation Skin: Selected works from the Murderme Collection and in the Spring of 2018, Beard was included in True Colours, a show of new works by three women artists at Newport Street Gallery, London. Beard’s work was also included in the show 21st Century Women curated by Jane Neal and Fru Tholstrup last Autumn in London.

Her work is in included in major collections worldwide.

She lives and works in Brighton, England.

Text courtesy Reflex Amsterdam.

Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Helen Beard, New Editions at Reflex Amsterdam, The Residence, Netherlands Closed 29 January–28 February 2022 Helen Beard New Editions The Residence
Contemporary art exhibition, Helen Beard, The Desire Path at Reflex Amsterdam, Netherlands Closed 9 May–13 October 2020 Helen Beard The Desire Path Amsterdam

Recent Artworks

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The Night Bright With Kisses by Helen Beard contemporary artwork print
Helen Beard The Night Bright With Kisses, 2021 Silkscreen on Somerset Tub 410gsm
100 x 100 cm
Reflex Amsterdam Contact Gallery
Part of the Lunar Portfolio (Yellow Moon) by Helen Beard contemporary artwork print
Helen Beard Part of the Lunar Portfolio (Yellow Moon), 2021 Silkscreen on Somerset Tub 410gsm
80 x 75 cm
Reflex Amsterdam Contact Gallery
Part of the Lunar Portfolio (Pink Moon) by Helen Beard contemporary artwork print
Helen Beard Part of the Lunar Portfolio (Pink Moon), 2021 Silkscreen on Somerset Tub 410gsm
80 x 75 cm
Reflex Amsterdam Contact Gallery
Part of the Lunar Portfolio (Blue Moon) by Helen Beard contemporary artwork print
Helen Beard Part of the Lunar Portfolio (Blue Moon), 2021 Silkscreen on Somerset Tub 410gsm
80 x 75 cm
Reflex Amsterdam Contact Gallery
The First Cut Is The Deepest by Helen Beard contemporary artwork print
Helen Beard The First Cut Is The Deepest, 2021 Silkscreen on Somerset Tub 410gsm
130 x 110 cm
Reflex Amsterdam Contact Gallery
Part of the Lunar Portfolio (Red Moon) by Helen Beard contemporary artwork print
Helen Beard Part of the Lunar Portfolio (Red Moon), 2021 Silkscreen on Somerset Tub 410gsm
80 x 75 cm
Reflex Amsterdam Contact Gallery
Leda and the Swan (Limited edition) by Helen Beard contemporary artwork print
Helen Beard Leda and the Swan (Limited edition), 2020 15 colour silkscreen on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm
35 x 30 cm
Reflex Amsterdam Contact Gallery
Illicit Kisses (Limited Edition) by Helen Beard contemporary artwork print
Helen Beard Illicit Kisses (Limited Edition), 2020 9 colour silkscreen on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm
138.5 x 120 cm
Reflex Amsterdam Contact Gallery
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