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Artist Statement:
Please visit my primary web
site, www.dashdotdash.net.
My art is the product of
studio experimentation and
investigation. The elements of
light, electricity and more
recently, kinetics, are
re-occurring fields of
exploration.
This investigative process
finds its public presentation
as site-specific adaptation in
galleries that provide
architectural features that I
can use, - such as light
sources.
I am most interested in
installation for its potential
to engage the body and senses.
With installation the spatial
concerns of sculpture are
opened out to involve
inhabitable space and a body’s
kinesthetic relationship
within it.
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Reviewer: Ruth Learner
Gallery: Yarra Sculpture
Gallery (117 Vere Street,
Abbotsford 3067)
Show: (main galleries)
Christopher Bell and (small
gallery) Simon Kilvert
23 June - 11 July
If sculpture is to art as
poetry is to writing, than
Bell's latest installation is
pure haiku. With a background
in industrial design ...
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Chris Bell:
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Solo Installations
2005 Movement Studies, Linden Centre for the Arts, Melbourne
2004 Sufi Disco, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
2001 Strange Weather, Mass Gallery. Melbourne
1999 Threescore and two, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
1998 Closed Shop, Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne
Sunspotting, Noosa Regional Gallery
Dirt T.V, Museum of Dirt, Melbourne
1997 The Warm War, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Tabulae Solis, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Sun and Heir, Selenium, Sydney. As member of ‘LUX’ collective
1993 Sowersong, Pendulum Gallery, Sydney
1992 Biasphere, First Draft (West) Inc., Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2003 Fundere Sculpture Prize Exhibition. Yarra Sculpture Gallery. Melbourne.
Group Show Red Gallery, Melbourne
Bootytylicious Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
4, Eckersleys Open Space Gallery, Melbourne
Material World, Motorworks Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Bastards of Industry, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Artflogg, Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne
1997 Christ I’m Pissed Off, Stop 22, Melbourne (catalogue)
Artline, Linden Gallery, Melbourne (catalogue)
1996 & MORE, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne (catalogue)
Sculpture Survey 2, University of Ballarat, Victoria (catalogue)
Experimenta Media Arts Festival, Lonsdale Street Power Station, Melbourne
Emerge, Linden Gallery, Melbourne (catalogue)
AWARDS
2005 2year Scholarship from Stanford University, USA
2003 Recipient of ’03 Fundêre Sculpture Prize
2001 Commission for public sculpture at Federation Square, Melbourne.
Residency, Flax Arts Studios, Belfast, N. Ireland. ( Aust. Council Assisted )
Arts and Professional Development Grant, Arts Victoria.
1999 Recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
1998 Artist in residence, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
1997 R.M.I.T. National Gallery Trustees Award
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