Artist: Graham Bell (1910 - 1943)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Graham Bell was born in South Africa and moved to England in 1931 to study under Duncan Grant. He initially painted abstracts but switched his career path to journalism from 1934 to 1937. Eventually returning to painting, Bell began working in a naturalist style similar to the artists of the Euston Road School. He died during World War II while on a training flight.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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John Vanderlyn - Mary Ellis Bell (Mrs. Issac Bell) c. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Winslow Homer - The Morning Bell 1873 Wood Engraving Arizona State University Museum
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David Octavius Hill - Mrs. Bell of Madras c. 1844 salted-paper print f Cincinnati Art Museum British
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Thomas Gainsborough - Ralph Bell 1772-74 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art British
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Peter Busa - Mariner's Bell 1962 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Gian Girolamo Grandi - Hand Bell n.d. bronze The Frick Collection Italian
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Sir Henry Raeburn - Portrait of Mrs. George Bell c. 1801-02 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Scottish
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Ghanti (Hand Bell), second half of the 19th century Northern IndiaBrass; H. 12 in. (30.5
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William Bell Teaspoon silver 1816
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Ceramic Horn, 19th century Unknown MakerFranceGlazed pottery; L. perpendicular to bell 17 in. (43.3 cm);
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Ritual bell Date: late 6th century B.C. - 5th century B.C.
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Thomas Robert Way The Old Bell Inn, Holborn, plate 14 in the book Reliques of Old London with introduction and descriptions by Henry B. Wheatley (London: George Bell & Sons, 1896) lithograph 1893
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Unidentified artist The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression As Connected with the Fine Arts by Charles Bell, 4th ed. (London: John Murray, 1847) book with engravings 1847
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Unidentified [(No.1) Benkei with temple bell] color woodcut 1894
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Unidentified [(No.1) Benkei with a temple bell] color woodcut 1894
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Larry Bell Untitled vacuum coated color (quartz film) 1978
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Larry Bell Untitled glass, rhodium plated brass, plexiglass 1986
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John Singleton Copley - Baron Graham 1804 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Painter of the Louvre G508 Red-Figure Bell Krater Terracotta circa 380 BC
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Artist: Sir Henry Raeburn Title: Portrait of Mrs. George Bell Date: about 1801 - 1802
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Henry Wolf The Bell Ringers 19th - 20th century
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LÈon Le Goaebe de BellÈe Bords de l'Orne etching 19th century
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Ritual bell (gantha) with a vajra handle Javanese Indonesia, Central Java, about 10th century Bronze
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Thomas Gainsborough - The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham c. 1775-1777 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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The Bell Inn George Morland (British, 1763-1804)Oil on canvas; 20 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.
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Artist: Nishimura Shigenaga Title: The Evening Bell at Mii Temple Date: about 1730 Medium: color
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Anonymous 20 watercolors of Otsu-e subjects: Benkei with a bell watercolor early 20th century
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Artist: William Bell Title: Canon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking North Date: about 1872
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Rigby Graham åJames Joyce*s Tower* Sandycove by Rigby Graham ([Wymondham]: Brewhouse Press, [1975]) book with reproductions of drawings and paintings 1975
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Artist: John Coles Title: Crest: Name of Fairfield Date: about 1790 Medium: watercolor and ink
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Artist: John Coles Title: Crest: Name of Beckett Date: about 1790 Medium: watercolor and ink
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Keiko Minami L'Horloge (The Bell Tower) Color etching 20th century
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Stupa-shaped bell with bull finial Javanese Indonesia, Eastern Java, 12th – 13th century Bronze Approximately
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Bell (after 1st-century B. C. Pompeiian type) Italy, 19th century Bronze 14.5 x 5.4 cm
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Bass trombone England, late 19th century Brass Overall Length: 137 cm (53 15/16 in.) Museum
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Artist: Diane Bell and Heal Fabrics Title: Reflection Date: 1974 Medium: cotton Dimensions: L.115 x
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Artist: Diane Bell and Heal Fabrics Title: Vista Date: 1977 Medium: cotton Dimensions: L.86 x
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George Cruikshank Untitled [Man with bell] brown ink 18th - 19th century
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Artist: William Bell Title: Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West Date: 1872 Medium:
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Edward Bell Mutual Confidence, or the Sentimental Friends Color aquatint 18th century
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Edward Bell Delicate Embarrassment or The Rival Friends Color aquatint 18th century
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Artist: Walter Shirlaw Title: Study for Toning of the Bell Date: 19th century Medium: charcoal
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Barbara Morgan - Martha Graham Letter to the World 1940 gelatin silver print Williams College Museum of Art American
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Graham Sutherland Old Cottage Etching 1924
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Graham Sutherland May Green Etching 20th century
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Robert Sargent Austin Bell, no. 2. engraving 1927
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Ritual bell Khmer Cambodia, about 12th century Bronze 22 cm (8 11/16 in.) Museum of
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Bonnie MacLean Graham San Francisco Rock Poster: Bill Graham Presents, Moody Blues; Richie Havens: Berkeley Community Theatre, 4/2, 11/70 lithograph 1970
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Graham Sutherland Hangar Hill etching 20th century
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Graham Sutherland Village Etching 20th century
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Graham Sutherland Michaelmas Etching 20th century
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Charleston Drawing Room Date: 1772 Medium: cypress Dimensions: L.487 x W.365
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Matsukawa Hanzan [Flowering pink and otsu picture of Benkei with bell] color woodcut 1861
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Friedrich Moritz Auguste Retzsch The Song of the Bell (London: Black and Armstrong, 1837) book with etchings 1837
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Graham Sutherland Insect Color lithograph 1963
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Sato Suiseki (Gyodai) [The bell tower at Kofukiji Temple in Nara, dream for Mr. Sawamura] color woodcut 1818 - 1822
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Graham Sutherland Cray Fields Etching 20th century
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Graham Sutherland The Meadow Chapel Etching 20th century
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Double-Bell Euphonium, 1936 Made by C.G. Conn Ltd.Elkhart, Indiana, United States of AmericaMetal; H. 31
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Giovanni Alberghetti I - A Table Bell with Portrait of Lodovico Maria Sforza, 1451-1508, called Il Moro, 7th Duke of Milan 1494-1508 c. 1494-1499 bronze National Gallery of Art Italian
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Larry Bell - SMS #216 1991 mylar, paper, lamina Hirshhorn Museum American
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst Henry Bell etching 19th - 20th century
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Graham Sutherland First plan drawing for May Green drawing: ink, graphite,opaque watercolor 1927
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Oboe England (possibly), 1st half of 18th century Ivory, silver Overall Length: 58.7 cm (23
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James Henry Daugherty [Gomper, Debs, Morse, Bell, Edison] woodcut 19th - 20th century
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William Bell Scott The Norns, plate 3 in the book, The Etcher (London: Williams and Norgate, 1879), vol. 1 etching 1879
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Artist: The Garvan Carver Title: Chippendale Dressing Table Date: 1755 - 1756 Medium: mahogany, white
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Johann Christoph Denner, German, 1655-1707 Soprano bassoon (fagottino) Germany, (Nuremberg), about 1700 Boxwood, brass 63.6
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Gunshot Fracture of Shaft of the Right Femur
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Oboe da caccia Germany (probably), early 18th century Walnut, leather, brass Overall Length: 84.5 cm
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Perched Rock, Rocker Creek, Arizona
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Henry Kusder, after 1762-1801 Oboe England, (London), about 1790 Pearwood, ivory, silver Overall Length: 58.5
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Andrea Fornari, Italian, 1753-1841 Oboe Italy, (Venice), 1815 Ebony, ivory Overall Length: 56.7 cm (22
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Johann Wolfgang Kenigsperger, 1724-1752 Oboe Germany, (Roding), about 1725 Pearwood, horn, brass Overall Length: 57.3
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Bell (zhong) China, 19th century Bronze 30.5 x 14.8 x 9.9 cm (12 x 5
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Bell (zhong) China, 19th century Bronze 31 x 24 cm (12 3/16 x 9 7/16
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Larry Bell - Untitled #1 1974 5-color Screenprint Polk Museum of Art American
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Thomas Robert Way Reliques of Old London with introduction and descriptions by Henry B. Wheatley (London: George Bell & Sons, 1896) book with 24 lithographs 1896
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Larry Bell - Untitled 1964 glass, bismuth, chro Hirshhorn Museum American
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LÈon Le Goaebe de BellÈe Cernay par un temps de neige, plate opposite page 172 in the book, Le Paysagiste aux champs (Paris: A. LÈvy, 1876) Etching on laid paper 1867
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Bell (yinqing) China, 19th century Bronze, bamboo 4.9 x 29.4 cm (1 15/16 x 11
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Horse bell (maling) China, 19th century Iron 9.3 x 7 cm (3 11/16 x 2
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Table Bell
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William Milhouse, English, 1761–after 1835 Oboe England, (London), about 1800 Boxwood, silver Overall Length: 56.9
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LÈon Le Goaebe de BellÈe Le B*cheron, souvenir de la forÍt de Fontainebleau, plate opposite page 226 in the book, Le Paysagiste aux champs (Paris: A. LÈvy, 1876) Etching on laid paper 19th century
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 15 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 16 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 12 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 11 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 10 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 14 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 8 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 7 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 6 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 13 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 5 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 4 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 3 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 2 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903
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Thomas Robert Way Plate 1 in the book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds by Philip Norman (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) lithograph 1903

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Comics Brew
'Comics Brew' presents a show of original comic artwork by T. Ott and Kalonji from Switzerland, Stassen from Belgium and Rabaté from France, with Karlien de Villiers, ND Mazin, Brendon Bell-Roberts and the Igubu Collective. The Comics Brew catalog...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Matthew Hindley: Surrender
"Informed by media reportage, individual experience and a developing personal iconography of metaphorical characters, these scenarios are rendered as encoded fictions or metaphors of trauma, couched in a "pop style." "Central to both his two...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Kevin Brand: 50+
The exhibition uses a repetition of an image that is never seen from the same perspective simultaneously: so although the work is a marked shift from his focussed „issue based‰ earlier concerns, the repetition alludes to his prior use of pixillati...
Experimental Art Foundation: Architectural Optics
THROW: two projected characters (a male and female) become moving targets as the audience is invited to throw soft satin balls aiming at them. The participants gradually discover that what had seemed at first like an easy task is rather challengin...
Jewish Federation/ Bell Family Gallery: Art and Artifice: Photographic Portraits by Strauss-Peyton
From the turn of the 20th century through the Roaring 20's, Strauss-Peyton's innovative techniques and dramatic results found favor with both world leaders and fashionable trend-setters. The most famous celebrities of that era, including Fanny Br...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa
The new premises at 89 Bree Street (between Shortmarket and Hout Streets) was originally built in 1752. The space is elegant and spacious , with a touch of old world charm about it. The gallery will now be situated on two floors and a roof top gar...
Jewish Federation/ Bell Family Gallery: Israel in Crisis Exhibit: 20 Years of Israeli Art, 1980-2000
"I wanted viewers to see that Israeli artists handle difficult subject matter and are not afraid to lift up rocks and see the underside," stated Michael Hittleman.  "The works are all about politics, discomfort with society, uneasy feelings, dread...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Picnic: A Summer Show - Curated by Andrew Lamprecht
Artists included in the exhibition are Usha Seejarim, Kathryn Smith, Doreen Southwood, Kevin Brand, Matthew Hindley, Ed Young, Christian Nerf, Sanell Aggenbach, Geoff Grundlingh, Zen Marie, Vuyisa Nyamende and Cameron Platter, Brett Murray, and Sv...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: THE ART OF BLOOMSBURY
Works by Bell, Fry, and Grant will be complemented by those of their contemporaries, such as Henry Lamb, Walter Sickert, Dora Carrington and William Roberts, and by the great continental modernist painters they admired, notably Picasso, Derain, a...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Sanell Aggenbach: Fool's Gold
Exploration and heritage are the underlining concepts, while illusions, fallacies and forgeries are presented to confuse perceptions of reality. The painted works interpret the uncertainty and fear that captured the sailor’s imagination when embar...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Doreen Southwood: The Swimmer
It is a space where oppression and depression which are continually swept under the carpet in favour of a more acceptable outward appearance. Doreen details the pathologies and symptoms that attend this denial. Symptom relieving drugs domestic cra...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Langlands and Bell: The House of Osama Bin Laden
Using a still and a digital video camera, Langlands & Bell recorded visits to ISAF HQ (the multi-national task force in Kabul led by the Turks at that time), the American airbase at Bagram, a murder trial at the Supreme Court in Kabul, the site of...
Physics Room: Dear Victoria: Victoria Bell and Victoria Edwards
Victorias Bell and Edwards reinforce this by saying, ‘Ideas and process became cyclic with motifs reappearing in various mediums. Recurring forms drawn from the collaborative process have been identified and cross-referenced within the work, while...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Kevin Brand: An Exhibition of Paintings Entitled 4x4
He has always felt free to move from one medium or process to another and, as such, painting is not that radical a departure. Where his ‘Balm of Banal’ series saw him create a series of assemblages made from ‘everyday’ items such as eggboxes and b...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Threads: Gina Waldman AND Lost and Found: Isolde Krams

ARTIST STATEMENT: GINA WALDMAN “The image of a tapestry is so domestic and in some ways banal, but so many interesting things happen on their surfaces. The front side of the tapestry is like a paint by number; perfect and seamless, whereas the ...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Close Encounters of the Art Kind: Work By Tania Kovats, Langlands and Bell, Sarah Lucas, Keir Smith, Richard Wilson, Bill Woodrow
Close Encounters of the Art Kind is devised by the innovative curator/artist, Colin Painter. Pioneering projects at the National Gallery (At Home with Constable's Cornfield, 1996) and Tate Britain (At Home With Art, 1999-2000) built on Painter's y...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Pierre Crocquet: On Africa Time
Text is included to complement the images. It is in the form of quotes from the people photographed and descriptions of the context in which they were photographed. It also contains the interpretations and perceptions of the photographer. The imag...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Cameron Platter: Life is Very Interesting
It features all the tried and tested themes of love and revenge, temptation and crookery, megalomania and obscene excess in the war between good and evil in contemporary South Africa. It promises to be an action-packed spectacle of crime and punis...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Doreen Southwood: Nothing Really Matters
Doreen is an Afrikaans speaking white female in her late twenties. Her work deals largely with issues of obsession and mental illness, striving to find the perfect balance between fear and love, order and chaos. She questions identity while dealin...
Yale Center for British Art: The Art of Bloomsbury
The Yale Center for British Art is the final stop for this exhibition that includes masterpiece paintings from the collections of the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery (L...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Giovanni Agresti Fiumara: Capetonians©
“Many people are anxious when they’re about to be photographed: not because they fear, as primitives do, being violated but because they fear the camera’s disapproval. People want the idealized image: a photograph of themselves looking their best....
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Women: Bongi Bengu
By aligning myself with this line of thinking as my forebears, I am searching to define my own identity. I ask myself questions relating to womanís sense of power or powerlessness. The mural decorations can be viewed as openings or invitations t...
I. Wolk Gallery: Mitchell Johnson: New Paintings
This show will feature more than 25 new pieces ranging from painterly figure compositions reminiscent of David Park and the Bay Area Figurative Tradition to bucolic scenes of Italy and California. Johnson’s particular use of color and gesture sho...
Shoreditch Tabernacle Hall: Art That Makes You Curious: Works by Eleven Artists
ART THAT MAKES YOU CURIOUS provides the opportunity to explore the diversity of artists in a space that echoes with unusual and unexpected vibrations, captivating the imagination and encouraging the viewer to explore the personal interactions with...
Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center: Tony Gray: The New Black is Black
Starring the resplendently Afro-ed Panthers in their bell-bottomed glory, the collages capture the flair and un-self-conscious enthusiasm of teen bedroom walls — the homemade stage-set of American adolescence — circa 1973. Patterning nostalgia ...
Tacoma Art Museum: Clearly Brilliant: A Decade of Pilchuck Glass School's Emerging Artists in Residence
The artists represented in Clearly Brilliant bring many themes and unique approaches to their work. Some artists make reference to objects you would see in everyday li...
Tate Britian: James Gillray: The Art of Caricature
This exhibition sets out to re-examine Gillrays art, through a selection of the finest impressions of his caricatures, almost all of which are examples of the hand-colouring applied at the time they were produced, alongside a...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Grime: Conceptualised and curated by Retha Erasmus
The same group of artists are asked to participate with two replacements. As was the case with CLEAN the basic premise of GRIME falls on producing colourless art works. In this case artists are requested to produce works of art that are mainly/ ...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Spot the Dog: A Sculpture-based Installation by Raymond Smith
The age old discipline of manipulating clay provides the ideal material to capture the essence in character, touch and feel of each breed. After ageing and firing the once wet clay becomes stone which cannot be altered. In this work limited editio...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Guy Tillim: Departure -  Photographic Exhibition and Book Launch
His photographs also formed the basis of the exhibition and book Amulets and Dreams: War Youth and Changing Africa (Pretoria) 2002 which was exhibited at the launch of African Union, Durban, July 2002. More recently he was selected, among 100 phot...

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