Exhibitions
2024
The Emancipated Rider, tHeir Gallery, London UK, 18/04 - 04/05/24
Unraveled, Maximillian Wolfgang Gallery, London, UK 02/03/-10/04/24
Her Story, The Hyde Gallery, London, UK 08/03/-16/03/24
2023
Fresh Talent pt 1, Artistellar Gallery, viewing room, London UK, 21/09/23 – 20/10/23
Reductive, Oxo Tower, London, UK, 08/09/23 – 10/09/23
Reductive, Galerie Joseph Rue de Turenne, Paris, France, 15 - 16/09/23
Villa Lena Art Foundation, Residency Open Studio, Tuscany, Italy, 20/08/2023
JB Gallery, viewing room - London UK, 02/02/23 - 15/03/24,
King Edward VII Medical Centre, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, London UK, 27/01/23 - 31/12/23,
2022
Imago Mundi, Hogarth Youth Centre, London UK, 30/09/2022
The Block Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 27/12/21 – 05/01/22
2021
Nothing is - Everything Just Has Been or Will Be, Korean Cultural Institute, London UK, 12/11/21 - 28/01/22
Nothing is - Everything Just Has Been or Will Be, Korean Cultural Institute, Berlin Germany, 09/07/21 - 28/08/21
Shortlist for Ashurst Art Prize, Fruit and Wool Exchange Shoreditch, London 25/06/21 - 08/10/21
2020
Fountain of Hygiene pt II, Haw Parr Music, Hong Kong 30/11/20-05/12/20
Fry Up, Kensington and Chelsea Art Week, KCAW, 1/12/20 - 30/01/21
Fountain of Hygiene, The Design Museum, London 31/07/10-04/09/20
Wave Theatre, La Galleria, Pall Mall 01/07 - 11/07/20
2019
Winter Salon, Offshoot Artspace, Highgate, 28/11/19-08/12/19
Something Written or Recorded, A Space is A Space, 26/11/19-05/12/19
No Captcha, Thanks, Offshoot Artspace, Highgate 20-29/09/19
Anti-Doughte, Museum of Food, Great Exhibition Road Festival, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 29/06/19
Museum Open Day, Tate and Lyle Sugar Factory, Silvertown, 22/02/19
2018
Mantra, Stour Space, Hackney Wick, 10/11/18
Low Voltage Experiments, The Silver Building, Silvertown, 25-28/10/18
Transform, Mint, London Design Festival, Kensington, London 15 - 29/09/18
FAM, Loft Studios, Kensal Green, London 01/06/18
Living Room, Safe House 1&2, Peckham, London 19 - 20/06/18
Thumbnails, Hockney Gallery, Kensington Gore, London 19 - 23/02/18
2017
Trutopia Presents: The Night Mayors, French Toast and Blonde, London 05/08/17
Time Poor Dreamers, Cypher Space, Wilsnacker Straße, Berlin, Germany 02 - 05/05/17
WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London 20 - 14/01/17
Crossing the Visible, New Court Gallery, Derbyshire 14/01/17 - 10/02/17
The Sacred Screen, The Square Gallery, Battersea, London 12/01/17 - 19/01/17
2016
The Londoner’s Compass, The Strand Gallery, London 18 - 23/10/16
Glossary, The Safehouse, Peckham, After Projects 18 - 23/10/16
Brücke Im Dschungel IV, Galerie der HBKsaar, Saarbrücken, Germany 29/09/16 - 02/10/16
Substance Rift, House of Vans, Waterloo, London 03/05/16 - 10/05/16
Structrure, No.57 Ossington Street, Notting Hill Gate, London 19/12/16 - 24/12/16
2015
Brücke Im Dschungel, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany 19/12/15
Rein ne vas Plus, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany 04/12/15
Deptford X, Festival of Contemporary Art, London 15 - 29/09/15
The Deleted World, After Projects, 5th Base Gallery, London 25/09/15 - 04/10/15
Southern Wilds, The Vaults, Waterloo, London 19 - 21/06/15
A Run in the Mind, ROA Gallery, Pall Mall, London 16/06/15
Umbra, The Vaults Festival, Waterloo, London, 08/06/15
2014
Freed From Desire, Gallery 223, Waterloo, London 23 - 24/11/14
Stripped, Stoke Newington Studios, London 15 - 23/10/14
Creation Box, Makespace Studios, Lambeth, London 03 - 07/07/14
2013
Superluminal Communication, ROA Gallery, Pall Mall, 14 - 19 /10/13
Surface Revive, Rook and Raven Gallery, Soho, London, 24/01 - 15/02/13
Consumed by Matter, The Chance Gallery, Kensington 01 - 10/10/13
2012
Shawshank Redemption, Secret Cinema, Hackney, London 02 - 29/12/12
II, ROA Gallery, Pall Mall, London 17/08 - 04/09/12
MADE, The Chance Gallery, Sydney Street, London 30/07 - 04/08/12
Graduation Show at City and Guilds of London Art School
Matter, like a feline time-stamping territory, brushes up against what is there.
Gala Bell is a London based multidisciplinary artist. The alchemy of matter is at the centre of her practice, moving between traditional painting and contemporary installation.
Graduate of the Royal College of Art, she has been selected for exhibitions with The Design Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The London Design Festival, The Korean Cultural Institute Berlin, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz Berlin and Galerie der HBKsaar in Saarsbrucken. Bell has had commissions by BBC One and Tate and Lyle for her sugar sculptures, with a piece acquired by the Tate and Lyle archive in London.
She has been included in publications with Sotheby’s Made in Bed Magazine, artwork features on BBC One and has been a guest on The Talk at Ten panel discussion. She was shortlisted for the Ashurst Art Prize 2021, and has been selected for Saatchi’s ‘Rising Stars 2022’ with a special feature for Saatchi’s ‘One to Watch.’
Inspired by the prismatic nature of modern living, her work engages with ideas of value, taste, hierarchy and absurd labour. The work is the aftermath of a reaction to substance and situation, moving between traditional painting and contemporary installation where materials and actions become metonymic, swapping roles between building methods or kitchen techniques, exploring the possibilities of our encounter with art objects.
Publications & Interviews
S|T Contemporary https://www.stcontemporary.com/viewing-room-artists/gala-bell
Osservatorio Transeuropa interview by Božidar Stanišić www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Bosnia-Erzegovina/Scintille-di-gioia-nell-arte-di-Gala-Bell-227624
Artistellar Gallery https://www.artistellar.com/exhibitions/27-inaugural-fresh-talent-show-autumn/cover/
Sotheby’s Made in Bed Magazine interview by editor in chief Rhiannon Roberts : https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/interviews/rhiannon-roberts-in-conversation-with-galabell
Saatchi Art : One to Watch by Aurora Garrison: https://canvas.saatchiart.com/art/one-to-watch/gala-bells-unconventional-methods-and-transformations
Saatchi Rising Stars 2022 : https://www.saatchiart.com/stories/rising-stars-2022
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/artist/gala-bell
Art City Works written by Olivia Wilson https://www.artcityworks.com/blog/31-gala-bell-breaking-the-boundaries-of-art/
Voices Radio Slingshot Live Show 10th July 11-1pm, Gala Bell in conversation with Tahmina Negmat : Listen on Voices Radio
Talk and Ten Creative Entrepreneurs and West London’s Screen Industry, panel discussion: https://westlondonbusiness.arlo.co/w/events/1119-talk-at-ten-creative-entrepreneurs
To the Studio interview podcast 2020: https://lnns.co/4-dsnH1l0If
Producers Art, PArt Talk Interview with Producers Art, PArt Talk 2020: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwXMK8oMh9/
FAD Magazine Article in FAD Arts and Culture Magazine, Fry Up, https://fadmagazine.com/
Time Out Time Out, KCAW High Street Windows, https://www.timeout.com/
KCAW Kensington and Chelsea Art Week High Street Windows https://www.kcaw.co.uk/high-street
FAD Magazine, KCAW High Street Windows, Fry UP https://fadmagazine.com
Collective Dry Magazine KCAW High Street Windows, Fry UP, https://www.collectibledry.com, KCAW High Street Windows, Fry UP, https://www.collectibledry.com
Royal Docks, written by Liz Bennett Interview with The Royal Docks, https://www.royaldocks.london/articles/sculpted-from-sugar-silvertown-legend-henry-tate-gets-a-fitting-tribute
Art Reveal Interview with Art Reveal, https://artrevealmagazine/docs/no34
Dazed Digital Article in Dazed Digital, http://www.dazeddigital.com
Killscreen written by Cathy McCarthy Article on killscreen.com
Focus London Interview with Focus LDN, http://www.focusldn.com
Commissions
Kensington and Chelsea Art Week, High Street Windows commissioned by Kensington and Chelsea Council
BBC One Tribe in partnership with Tate and Lyle Sugar Factory, Sir Henry Tate sugar bust for documentary commemorating Tate’s 200th Birthday, January 2019
Education
2016 - 2018 Royal College of Art, MA Painting
2009 - 2012 City and Guilds of London Art School BA (hons) Fine Art Painting 1st
2008 - 2009 Foundation in Art, Diploma, City and Guilds of London Art School
Awards and Residencies
Villa Lena Art Foundation, artist in residence and Creative Contributor 2023
Selected as Guest Artist for Artist Access to Colleges at New Buckinghamshire University, 2022
Imago Mundi - Recipient of Summer of Culture Grant, LBH 2022
Ashurst Art Prize, shortlisted 2021
Fountain of Hygiene, design shortlisted for Hygiene Innovation Beyond the Sanitiser, Bompas & Parr and The Design Museum 2020
The Aidan Threlfall Award, The Goldsmiths’ Company, runner up, London 2011
First Prize, Outstanding Work in Show, City and Guilds of London Art School, 2009
Curation
Mantra at Stour Space, Hackney Wick, London 10/11/18
Substance Rift at House of Vans, Waterloo, London 03-22/06/16
Freed From Desire at Gallery 223, Waterloo, London 20-25/10/15