ABOUT - bio
Alyson Bell is a practicing visual artist living and working in Sydney's Northern Beaches and working predominantly, though not exclusively, with the moving image, video and installation.
Her artworks have been described as poetic and layered and often centre around an emotional state or a connection to place. That said, they also have been known to surprise with a unique element of playfulness.
Alyson's background in Graphic Design (BA Hons degree, UK), in Film (VCA Film & Television School post-graduate diploma), and Visual Arts (diploma with distinction) has hugely informed her arts practise. With a career encompassing work in London & Sydney as a photographic stylist, designer, magazine art director, advertising art director, film director of museum exhibition videos/commercials/promos and her own award winning short films (both here and internationally) plus an Australian Film Institute nomination... have all naturally merged into what is now her current practise.
Alyson has exhibited in many group exhibitions and festivals since 2014. Most recently she received the Major Open Award at the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize with her installation The Twilight Hour. She was also the winner of The 2015 Kennedy Prize with her video installation Never-Ending Tide.
At Bundanon’s 2017 Siteworks Festival Alyson projection-mapped the animation Spirit in the window of Arthur Boyd’s studio and in 2018 was selected for a year long Studio Artist Residency at the Northern Beaches Creative Space in Sydney. Recent exhibitions include the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize at the Coal Loader, 'Daily Rhythms' exhibition at The Saywell Gallery Marrickville May 2022, and as a finalist in the 2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize (also In 2020), 'In Plein Light' at the Gaffa Gallery Sydney 2021, 'Beyond Matter' at The Incinerator Gallery Willoughby 2021 and at the 2019 Manly Arts Festival.
Her artworks have been described as poetic and layered and often centre around an emotional state or a connection to place. That said, they also have been known to surprise with a unique element of playfulness.
Alyson's background in Graphic Design (BA Hons degree, UK), in Film (VCA Film & Television School post-graduate diploma), and Visual Arts (diploma with distinction) has hugely informed her arts practise. With a career encompassing work in London & Sydney as a photographic stylist, designer, magazine art director, advertising art director, film director of museum exhibition videos/commercials/promos and her own award winning short films (both here and internationally) plus an Australian Film Institute nomination... have all naturally merged into what is now her current practise.
Alyson has exhibited in many group exhibitions and festivals since 2014. Most recently she received the Major Open Award at the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize with her installation The Twilight Hour. She was also the winner of The 2015 Kennedy Prize with her video installation Never-Ending Tide.
At Bundanon’s 2017 Siteworks Festival Alyson projection-mapped the animation Spirit in the window of Arthur Boyd’s studio and in 2018 was selected for a year long Studio Artist Residency at the Northern Beaches Creative Space in Sydney. Recent exhibitions include the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize at the Coal Loader, 'Daily Rhythms' exhibition at The Saywell Gallery Marrickville May 2022, and as a finalist in the 2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize (also In 2020), 'In Plein Light' at the Gaffa Gallery Sydney 2021, 'Beyond Matter' at The Incinerator Gallery Willoughby 2021 and at the 2019 Manly Arts Festival.
NORTHERN BEACHES ENVIRONMENTAL ART PRIZE
2021 finalist TREE SPIRITS Manly Art Gallery, Sydney December 2021 |
HEAD-ON PHOTO FESTIVAL
touring regional NSW exhibition 2020 VISION finalist The Shac Gallery, Robertson NSW May 2021 Gosford Art Gallery Central Coast NSW July 2021 Sydney Festival November 2021 
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NORTHERN BEACHES ART PRIZE 2020 finalist
REACHING TO THE UNKNOWN a postcard from home response to Covid-19 times |
