A Monday wake-up call à la Helen Beard. The British artist “depicts explicit, sexual scenes in a riot of celebratory colour”, in the words of Holly Black, who interviewed Beard for Elephant in 2019. Beard frequently turns to old-school pornography as her source material, but deliberately seeks out images that “[speak] of female pleasure and mutual empowerment, as opposed to subjugation”, further propagating these ideas in her painted interpretations. “Sex doesn’t just have to be talked about through the lens of pornography, and that’s why I’m trying to do what I do, it’s a completely different stance.” Read the full interview here.
