Helen Beard: It's Her Factory
Featured in ‘Extraordinary Collections III’, Helen Beard’s ‘It’s Her Factory’ is a silkscreen print on Somerset Photo Satin 410gsm inspired by the forms of Matisse’s cut outs and the repetition Andy Warhol’s ‘The Factory’.
'I knew that I wanted to make a painting with a clitoris shape. Nobody knew it was that shape until really recently, I just couldn’t believe that we wouldn’t know that. I guess doctors didn’t study female anatomy, it was unimportant in a patriarchal system. It’s a lovely shape and it’s really graphic, and the minute I saw it, it made me think of those Matisse works. I wanted to make each one slightly different because all women are different. So they couldn’t be the same but I wanted to keep them as simple shapes, like Matisse’s cut outs and I did do them as cut outs to start with. The titles of my works are really important and I was making an awful lot of paintings, so it felt factory-like, and I was thinking about Warhol and The Factory and listening to that Gang of Four song 'It's Her Factory' and then it just sort of seemed really relevant. It was significant that it was my factory, that it’s a woman’s' - Helen Beard
Details:
Helen Beard
‘It’s Her Factory’
Silkscreen print on Somerset Photo Satin 410gsm
100 × 98 cm
Signed by the artist
Edition of 60
Sold framed
“All one needs to do to properly enjoy a painting by Helen is to look like you taste. To see like you touch”
A closer look at ‘It’s Her Factory’
About the Artist: Helen Beard
Image Credit: Jo Thorne
Helen Beard is a British artist renowned for vibrating with movement and colour in a celebration of the erotic experience. Using a vibrant palette and an ever changing framework: from close-crops to wide shots, to create a landscape of intimacy, her paintings are a textural fusion between form and colour, utilising sinuous brush strokes in a motion akin to stroking skin.
Beard has exhibited her work in renowned galleries and art fairs worldwide, including collaborations with the artist Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in London. Her work is sought after by collectors and continues to gain recognition for its unapologetic portrayal of sexuality.
‘It’s Her Factory’ is now available to purchase from Extraordinary Objects Gallery. For more details on this, or any other works please feel free to contact us. To explore our collection of rare prints, collectables and natural history, visit our New Acquisitions page