BROKEN BOARDS
SOLO EXHIBITION
LINTON & KAY 2025
Capturing beauty and
finding meaning in
life’s ordinary moments
The art of the ordinary
Helen Shearwood creates contemporary art that uncovers the beauty hidden in the everyday. Her practice explores how perception changes when we look again — how the discarded can become art, and how stripping away labels can allow us to see with our own eyes.
Her work is both a creative language and a personal compass, guiding her through the quiet process of understanding herself and the world anew.
“Helen Shearwood
explores the ordinary
and brings us beauty.”
A surfboard becomes art
Broken Boards, Linton & Kay 2025
The inception of Broken Boards
A surfboard becomes a seascape
About Helen
Helen Shearwood is a British/Australian contemporary artist whose practice uncovers the beauty hidden in the overlooked. Working across photography, painting, collage and textiles, she explores how perception shifts when we look again — revealing the quiet magnificence within the everyday; within ourselves.
Her exhibitions Infinite Beauty (2022), Alchemy (2025), and Broken Boards (2025) trace the evolution of this practice, with her fourth solo exhibition scheduled for 2027. READ MORE
Helen photographing torn posters in London — the beginning of her next solo exhibition, TORN.
“Helen’s work is defined by its ability to alchemise brokenness into beauty. She transforms her subject matter into bold, abstract compositions that convey something tangible and emotionally resonant.”
Photograph of a letterbox
Photograph of a skip bin
From rubbish to art
Photograph of a kerb