DEBORAH BELL | Artemis with Dog I - III |

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DEBORAH BELL, Artemis with Dog I - III

Bronze, 380 x 280 x 120 cm

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DEBORAH BELL, Interval

Bronze, 208 x 45 x 42 cm

DEBORAH BELL, Be Earth Now
Mixed media on paper

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DEBORAH BELL, Be Earth Now

Mixed media on paper, 210 x 140 cm

DEBORAH BELL, Unearthed VII<br />AP2
Bronze

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DEBORAH BELL, Unearthed VII
AP2

Bronze, 213 x 49 x 102 cm

DEBORAH BELL, Unearthed V<br />AP2
Bronze

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DEBORAH BELL, Unearthed V
AP2

Bronze, 239 x 62 x 64 cm

DEBORAH BELL, Unearthed I<br />AP2
Bronze

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DEBORAH BELL, Unearthed I
AP2

Bronze, 194 x 52 x 84 cm

DEBORAH BELL, Invocation: The Ancient Ones I
Bronze

Deborah Bell, Invocation The Ancient Ones (I,II &V), Bronze on marble and stainless steel plinth, 143 x 45 x 45 cm (5) web

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DEBORAH BELL, Invocation: The Ancient Ones I

Bronze, 143 x 45 x 45 cm

Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists.

Bell has called these silent and seemingly ancient figures Invocation: The Ancient Ones. Made of cast bronze on marble bases resting on steel plinths, they evolved from a previous set of five monumental figures that Bell made in 2015 entitled Return of the Gods.

Draped in robes, the figures exude serenity as they drift, eyes closed, towards the horizon. Bell has described the smaller totemic figures resting on their heads as manifestations of one’s higher self, spirit, or soul.

Over the years the artist’s work has become increasingly concerned with surrender – to the higher self, the mystery of the universe, the simplicity of the present. Bell has described her artistic practice as a journey through time and material to show something that has always existed.

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DEBORAH BELL, Invocation: The Ancient Ones II

Bronze, 152 x 45 x 45 cm

Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists.

Bell has called these silent and seemingly ancient figures Invocation: The Ancient Ones. Made of cast bronze on marble bases resting on steel plinths, they evolved from a previous set of five monumental figures that Bell made in 2015 entitled Return of the Gods.

Draped in robes, the figures exude serenity as they drift, eyes closed, towards the horizon. Bell has described the smaller totemic figures resting on their heads as manifestations of one’s higher self, spirit, or soul.

Over the years the artist’s work has become increasingly concerned with surrender – to the higher self, the mystery of the universe, the simplicity of the present. Bell has described her artistic practice as a journey through time and material to show something that has always existed.

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DEBORAH BELL, That One Voice

Bronze, 42 x 90 x 30 cm (16 1/2 x 35 3/8 x 11 3/4 in.)

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DEBORAH BELL, Sanctuary

Mixed media on paper, 53 x 107 cm (20 3/4 x 42 1/8 in.)

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DEBORAH BELL, Sentinel IV

Mixed media on paper, 160 x 60 cm

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DEBORAH BELL, Sentinel V

Mixed media on paper, 160 x 60 cm

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DEBORAH BELL, Sentinel VI

Mixed media on paper, 160 x 60 cm

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DEBORAH BELL, Sentinel VIII

Mixed media on paper, 160 x 60 cm

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DEBORAH BELL, Sentinel V

Bronze, 236 x 40 x 40 cm

Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists. She works in a range of media on canvas and paper, produces dry point etchings and large-scale bronzes. She has developed an immediately recognisable visual language, her images simple, stark, symbolic – grounded, silent, still, poised. In her iconography she draws from a range of cultures, philosophies and psychologies, with her work arriving out of an internal and personal place that Bell occupies in the world as an artist, a woman and an explorer.