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Jun 3, 2021 · The uncompromising art of Australia’s Richard Bell: ‘There’s got to be a day of reckoning’. For 30 years Bell has deployed his canvas for bold activism, which takes over the Museum of...
Jan 25, 2023 · A new documentary from Larissa Behrendt, You Can Go Now, highlights the life, work and activism of Richard Bell: a self-described “activist masquerading as an artist”.
Known for. Painting, contemporary Indigenous Australian art. Awards. National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Richard Bell (born 1953) is an Aboriginal Australian artist and political activist. He is one of the founders of proppaNOW, a Brisbane -based Aboriginal art collective.
Sep 24, 2023 · Aboriginal artist and activist Richard Bell in his Brisbane studio. He is the subject of the documentary You Can Go Now, directed by Larissa Behrendt. Photograph: Rhett Hammerton/GoodThing...
May 20, 2023 · Arts. Latest. 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 history as an activist informs his firebrand works, which dissect Australian society's racism.
Biography. Richard Bell warns in the introduction to his ‘Bell’s Theorem’ that his thesis will be ‘ … conversational, playful, serious, tongue in cheek, moralistic, tolerant, sermonistic and informative’. Aboriginal culture, Bell believes, has become a commodity, slowly being digested by Western society. Within this system ...
Jun 7, 2019 · Interview 7 June 2019. Richard Bell: 'My art is an act of protest' Meet the artist and activist who challenges preconceived ideas about Aboriginal art. transcription. My shows are an act of protest. They’re activist. I’m the boss, ok? I found out that I could say whatever the f**k I wanted to in art and not get arrested!
