BROKEN BOARDS
SOLO EXHIBITION
LINTON & KAY 2025
“Helen’s work is defined by its ability to alchemise brokenness into beauty.”
The art of the ordinary
Helen Shearwood explores perception, perspective and the unexpected possibilities that emerge when we learn to see through a different lens.
Through photography, painting, collage and textiles, Helen reimagines overlooked fragments of the ordinary as abstract works that invite reflection, curiosity and new ways of seeing.
Cracked kerbs, broken surfboards, torn posters and weathered materials become invitations to look again.
What emerges when we look again at what we thought we already knew?
“Helen Shearwood
explores the ordinary
and brings us beauty.”
Photograph of a skip bin
Photograph of a kerb
Photograph of a surfboard
Photograph of a torn poster
“For Helen, translating hidden beauty into abstract form is an artistic pursuit and a form of therapy that opens spaces for reflection, hope, and human connection.”
About Helen
Looking again
Helen Shearwood is a British/Australian contemporary artist whose work explores perception, perspective and the hidden possibilities that can emerge when we look again through a different lens.
From beauty to truth
The discovery of hidden beauty in the external world became the catalyst for a deeper personal enquiry.
The shift in perspective that allowed Helen to recognise beauty in overlooked objects eventually turned inward. Through years of introspection, questioning inherited beliefs, facing grief, fear and uncertainty, and stripping away what no longer felt true, she discovered that the same principle underpinning her art applied to human experience: what is most true is often not absent, merely obscured.
What was here all along
Helen’s practice is not simply an exploration of perception, but of revelation.
Each piece reflects an ongoing enquiry into what was here all along, and what becomes visible when we remove what stands between us and what feels true.
Through abstraction and reimagined perspectives, Helen creates spaces for reflection, curiosity and the rediscovery of beauty in ourselves, each other and the world around us. READ MORE
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Helen’s exhibitions Infinite Beauty (2022), Alchemy (2025), and Broken Boards (2025) trace the evolution of this practice, with her fourth solo exhibition scheduled for 2027.
Helen photographing torn posters in London — the beginning of her next solo exhibition, TORN.