Deborah Bell Johannesburg, South Africa, b. 1957

  • 'The idea of an artist as a magician delights me. It is about alchemy and the turning of base material into gold'
  • Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists. She works in a range of media on canvas... Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists. She works in a range of media on canvas... Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists. She works in a range of media on canvas...

    Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists. She works in a range of media on canvas and paper, produces dry point etchings and large-scale bronzes. Her earlier more political work has given way to a broader, deeper investigation into the border between mortality and immortality, matter and spirit, presence and absence, the quotidian and the mythic, the grounded and transcendent. In recent years she has developed an immediately recognisable visual language, her images simple, stark, symbolic – grounded, silent, still, poised. As Ricky Burnett has stated: at the very edge of time.

                                                              

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  • Deborah Bell's current retrospective runs until 3rd August at Spirit Studios Suffolk

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