Scientia E Metaphysica (Bell’s Theorem) (2003), is emblazoned with the statement: “Aboriginal art. It’s a white thing”. Credit: Anna Kucera It’s not hard to discern racist attitudes in ...

Provocative Indigenous artist and activist Richard Bell says he is tired of getting angry. ... “White girls can’t hump”, touching off another predictable round of criticism and controversy.

When artist Richard Bell won the 2003 National Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in late August, he collected the $40,000 prize for his painting "Scienta E Metaphysica (Bells ...

Bell’s paintings, collages, murals, installations and video works are at once a colourful seduction, a complex assemblage of politics and ideas, and a blunt instrument. It begins with his paintings ...

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, 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 ...

Inspired by the Aboriginal Tent Embassy – the protest camp set up 50 years ago on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra – Richard Bell's Embassy will take over the Art Gallery of South ...

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.

Richard Bell’s activist art hits the big screen in Chicago. Bell is showing in Expo Chicago's sector for large and site-specific works, and is the subject of a documentary screening during the fair.

A LEADING artist has accused another artist featured in the Adelaide Festival of exploiting indigenous designs he says have been presented as “decoration and fluff”. Queensland-born Richard ...

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 ...