Artist field note

Richard Bell

The argument is part of the artwork.

Appears inOceania

02 / 05

Scientia E Metaphysica (Bell’s Theorem)

2003

Modernist abstraction is appropriated back. Bell asks why borrowing is celebrated in one direction and policed in the other.

The five in one idea

Bell makes art that argues back - at museums, markets, modernism and the comforting stories of settler culture.