True Colours: Helen Beard, Sadie Laska, Boo Saville is a hardcover exhibition book published by Other Criteria in 2018 to accompany the Newport Street Gallery exhibition curated by Damien Hirst. The book brings together three contemporary painters whose practices are very different, but strongly connected through their intense use of colour, form, and emotional impact.

Inside, the 176-page volume features more than fifty works, making the exhibition the largest presentation to date for each artist at the time. Helen Beard’s bold paintings use bright colour and close-up compositions to explore sexuality and desire; Sadie Laska’s works combine abstraction, gesture, rhythm, and street-influenced energy; and Boo Saville’s paintings move between portraiture, memory, and luminous fields of colour. With interviews by Polly Borland, Rachel Howard, and Lizzi Bougatsos, plus essays by Michael Bracewell, Freire Barnes, and Amie Corry, True Colours is a strong collector’s book for fans of contemporary painting, colour-driven abstraction, and female artists working with powerful visual language.

Author: Helen Beard, Sadie Laska, Boo Saville, Michael Bracewell, Freire Barnes, Amie Corry

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Pages: 176 pages

Size: 24 × 31.5 cm / 9 × 12.25 in

Published: 2018

ISBN: 9781906967949

Publisher: Other Criteria Books