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In 2003 Bell won the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award with his work Scientia E Metaphysica (Bell’s Theorem), which features the text: “Aboriginal Art - It’s a ...
Richard Bell is always called “controversial”. The word is both too clichéd and too weak. The Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Goreng Goreng artist is powerful, demanding, unsettling, garish, in-your-face, ...
Richard Bell's prolific career is catalogued in a major survey exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art — from high-pitched text paintings to laugh out loud comic strips and video ...
Richard Bell, Scratch an Aussie, 2008, still from HD video, 10 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane. A new Prime Minister, aka Gary Foley, has been installed by the Chinese ...
Richard Bell has installed a replica of the 1972 Aboriginal ... Richard Bell has been making art, and ... text and performance, Bell tackles everything from the erasure of Aboriginal ...
You Can Go Now looks at the life and provocative work and writings of First Nations artist, Richard Bell.The film reveals the "two Richards" – "Richie" the provocateur and enfante terrible of ...
Richard Bell, who for decades has highlighted the erasure of Australia’s Indigenous culture, will discuss the documentary, You Can Go Now, at the Gene Siskel Film Center Courtesy of Milani ...
Richard Bell has been an activist for half a century. Now he's telling his story Bell began making art in his early 30s, figuring out it was a way to pursue his activism, without getting arrested.
A tent festooned with protest placards by the Brisbane-based Indigenous artist Richard Bell will pop up at Tate Modern in London this May. Titled Embassy, the tent will host a programme of public ...
Artist Richard Bell outside the Tate Modern gallery where his installation “Embassy” is on display. Credit: Andy Hall “It really bothered me,” says Bell, who turns 70 this year.