Helena Guina

Helena Guina is a Melbourne-based visual artist working across painting and mixed media.

Her practice explores memory, psychological tension, and emotional fragmentation through a visual language that combines representational imagery with surreal and symbolic distortion. Interested in the unstable space between inner experience and external appearance, she creates works that evoke vulnerability, unease, and introspection.

Influenced by expressionist sensibilities and personal narrative, Guina’s work often reflects on identity, feminine subjectivity, trauma, and the subconscious. Her paintings seek to hold contradiction: beauty and rupture, tenderness and discomfort, clarity and ambiguity. Through this tension, she constructs emotionally resonant image-spaces that invite layered interpretation.

Guina has a background in design, visual arts, and commercial studio practice, and has also worked across mural projects and community-based creative settings. Her practice is grounded in both technical sensitivity and psychological depth, with an ongoing focus on creating work that is intimate, contemporary, and affec

Education
Bachelor of Design (Visual Arts), LCI Melbourne
Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT University

• Brunswick Artist Bar — Chromatics (Solo Exhibition), Melbourne (2025)
• Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne (2024)
• Four By Four Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne (2024)
• Incognito Exhibition, Melbourne (2024)
• Blender Studios Annual Group Exhibition, Melbourne (2020–2024)
• LCI Collide Exhibition, Melbourne (2022)
• UNITY, BSIDE Gallery, Melbourne (2021)
• LCI Alien Exhibition, Melbourne (2021)
• The Darkest Night, The Old Bar, Melbourne (2021)
• Affinity, Fitzroy Art Collective, Melbourne (2019)
• VS Gallery – Trouble Makers Exhibition, Melbourne (2018)
• RMIT Diploma Exhibition, Melbourne (2018)