Hired Gun

British painter Helen Bur sits firmly in the camp of artists that can seamlessly coexist in both the traditional fine art world and the ever-evolving landscape of urban art. Burr adapts her painting techniques depending on her canvas, whether linen or concrete.

Bur’s work relays the daily surreality we all face with the media. The artist focuses on the oversaturation of imagery and information in popular culture by depicting dreamlike figurative situations and nods to magical realism, contrasting these hyperreal visualisations as to our normality.