Entwined
Adventures

HELEN BEARD'S INTIMATE REFLECTIONS ON LOVE, SEX, ART AND DESIRE

PAINTING


Helen Beard is a British artist whose work investigates themes of desire, intimacy, and the female body through painting, performance, and installation. Her practice explores how personal experiences intersect with broader cultural representations of femininity and sexuality, challenging conventional boundaries between public and private. In May 2022, Beard kept a diary documenting her thoughts on love, pleasure, desire, and expression through painting. She traveled between New York, Chicago, and London, sharing personal thoughts and experiences—movements between cities, between lovers, between states of being. The diary fragrance is an intimate chronicle of her entwined adventures.

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Helen Beard
05 / 2022 · 19 — 30
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Day 19 — Sussex
My studio is on the waterfront. The sunsets are incredible. A sea defence on the beach reminds me of bodies piled up. It haunts me.
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Day 20 — Tate Modern
Lubaina Himid’s drawer portraits. Beautiful men painted on the bottom of drawers. What Happens Next felt very poignant.
21 Day 21 — Faith Ringgold
22 Day 22 — Frida Orupabo
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Day 23 — Nancy Grossman
Chicago. Amazing art at the Art Institute. NYC. Nancy Grossman, Faith Ringgold at The New Museum.
24 Day 24 — Basquiat
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Day 25 — Picasso
Love is on my mind. Andy Warhol’s Love, Sex and Desire. Erotic poems by e.e. cummings. Love poems by Pablo Neruda.
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Day 26 — Bowery Hotel note
Feeling the Spring with you.
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Day 27 — Print Fair
They have wrapped the pub in shiny black plastic, like PVC. The whole pub dressed as a gimp. And the lilacs are still blooming.
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Day 28 — Love poetry books
Erotic poems by e.e. cummings and love poems by Pablo Neruda, Nobel Laureate. Obviously, love is on my mind!
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Day 29 — Anna de Noailles poem
A poem by Anna de Noailles. To accompany new work, Le Petit Mort. Through our lust we hope, we seek to die and live forever.
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Day 30 — Studio (Red Dovecot)
Deep Cobalt Violets, Paynes Grey, Azurite Blues and Yellow Ochres. The Jeff Buckley song Lilac Wine on repeat in my head.
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Olfactive Journal

Entwined Adventures

Perfumer — Mark Buxton

Elemi, tarragon, basil, lavender, sage, geranium, frankincense, patchouli, musk.

05 / 2023

Series Statement

Over fixed periods, we invite artists to keep a diary with us — through audio, text, video, image.

They share textures, thoughts and experiences from that time.

At the diary’s close, our perfumer creates a fragrance — not as translation, but as portrait.

A period in the artist’s life,
filtered through another’s attention.

The scent becomes an anchor, but not for preservation.

For return. For continuation in another form.

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