ABOUT - bio
Alyson Bell is a Sydney based multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in video, digital media and installation. Utilising projection, animation, sound, light and shadow with repurposed materials, the moving image is pushed outside of its traditional two dimensional format. Installations are a response to 'happenings' both close to the heart through to subjects of greater magnitude in the wider world. These may translate into a darker transformational context or even surprise with an element of playfulness.
A background in Design (BA Hons degree, UK), in Film (VCA Film & Television School post-graduate diploma), and Visual Arts (diploma) have hugely informed her arts practise. With a career encompassing work in London & Sydney as a photographic stylist, designer, magazine art director, advertising art director and film-maker of 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 as a finalist in numerous art prizes and in 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 recipient of The 2015 Kennedy Prize with her video installation Never-Ending Tide.
A background in Design (BA Hons degree, UK), in Film (VCA Film & Television School post-graduate diploma), and Visual Arts (diploma) have hugely informed her arts practise. With a career encompassing work in London & Sydney as a photographic stylist, designer, magazine art director, advertising art director and film-maker of 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 as a finalist in numerous art prizes and in 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 recipient of The 2015 Kennedy Prize with her video installation Never-Ending Tide.
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