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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.
Bell’s three takes on Roy Lichtenstein’s Crying Girl carry the thought bubbles: “Thank Christ I’m not Aboriginal!!!” (2007), “Thank ... The exhibition is controversial, all right. It’s also a fluent ...
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 ...
Bell is an internationally renowned artist who works across painting, installation, ... we should all be talking about Richard Bell Published: January 25, 2023 3:23pm EST.
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 ...
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 ...
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’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 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 ...