Elizabeth Bell
Melbourne, Australia.
Email: elizabeth@elizabethbell.com.au
Web: www.elizabethbell.com.au
EDUCATION
MVA by research, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney 1994 – 96. Photography, Performance, Sculpture and Installation
BA Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts 1982 – 84. Major Photography & Print Making
Diploma Illustrative Photography RMIT 1979 – 80
YOGA SIROMANI International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre Neyyar Dam, India 2003
YOGA THERAPY Svastha Yoga and Ayurveda, Ganesh Mohan, India/Melbourne/Auckland 2015 - 2020
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
T-Towel d’Art 1986 - 2016 Collaboration with Judith Lodwick, known as 'LodwickCampbell'. Active from 1986 - 1990.
2000 - National Gallery Canberra Collection 2000
2019 - Collected by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/15975/
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 - Presence of the past: Post-modernism and Australian art since 1980 16albermarle Project Space
2017 - Alpha & Omega: the beginning and the end. Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney April 2016–December 2017
2016 - Lady Cruthers Collection of Australian Women Art, Perth WA 2000/2016
2015 - Tin Sheds Retrospective, University of Sydney Gallery 2015
2012 - Look, Look Again, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the University of WA 2012
1999 - Prints from Pre-Settlement to the Present Day National Gallery Canberra 1999
1994 - Leipzig Museum of Oceanic Art 1994
1989 - Towers of Torture, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University 1989
1989 - 100% Pure Dirty Linen, aGOG Gallery (Australian Girls Own Gallery) Canberra
1988 - Inside the Greenhouse, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University 1988
1981 Galerij Groen Huis - Photographs of My Absence 1981
1980 Paris Biennale - In conjunction with Jill Orr, primary artist - images as ‘trunk’ of Orr’s performance ‘Bleeding Trees’. https://jillorr.com.au/e/bleeding-trees
PEFORMANCE & INSTALLATION
The Body Show, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1997 (Performance & installation)
Permission to Look, The Performance Space, Sydney 1997 (Performance &installation)
Permission to Look, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1996 Graduate performance (Performance & installation)
‘Showing the Boxes’ Red Shed Adelaide Fringe 1996 (Performance & installation)
Permission to Look, Art Gallery of South Australia 1995 (Performance & installation)
‘The Naked Lecturer’ weekly performance/installation from the pedestal at RMIT University, Department of Sculpture 1998 - 2001.
GRANTS AND COMMISSIONS
1987 The Performance Space, Sydney for ‘Foucault à Go-Go'
1987 Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney Theatresports
1989 Australia Council Grant, to make ‘The Pioneer 1990’
1995 ANAT, to purchase surveillance cameras and fund a tour to AGSA for performance ‘Permission To Look’
2015 Commissioned Mirror Drawings as garden installations for Sharyn and John Young, Helen Traubel, Robert Mills.
2016 Commissioned Mirror Drawings as garden installations for Helen Campbell.
2017 Commissioned Mirror Drawing pond installation for Sharyn and John Young.
2018 Garden Sanctuary with Mirror Drawings for Deb Richardson
THIS WORKING LIFE
2015 - current: Mirror Drawing Mosaics. Meditative garden art and sculpture works.
2000 - current: Yoga Siromani. Providing tailored yoga for corporate and private clients who include: GDJ, Powercor, Citipower, City of Melbourne, St Vincent's Hospital, Dance of Life Yoga, Almanis, Teamsquare.
2017 - 2020 Project manager GDJ
1998 – 2003 RMIT University, School of Sculpture, Melbourne, Australia.
Teaching tertiary life drawing. This class was notable for its paradigm shift: all teaching was conducted from the position of the model and incorporated elements of performance and meditation as well as conventional drawing technique. This innovation - the naked lecturer - developed out of and became an extension of Elizabeth's Masters thesis. Again a challenge to the valency of the gaze, giving voice to the historically silent female 'nude'.
1994 - 1997: Masters of Visual Art, SCA, Uni of Sydney
1986 - 1990: T-towel's dArt, Blue Mountains and Sydney
1982 - 1984: BA of Visual Art, SCA.
1980 - 1990: Documentary-Collaborative Photography with/of/for Jill Orr, Richard Boulez, Stelarc, and David Tolley.