LINDA BELL
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Linda Bell creates large-scale, interactive sculptural artworks. The sensory process of making is crucial to Linda’s practice. She explores the sensory nature of materials, carefully assembling foil, fabric, paper and card. Linda often performs with her artworks, giving the works new meanings as they are transformed through performance. Collaboration with audience members and participants is an important aspect of Linda’s performances. These collaborations allow her to explore the relationship between herself, her work and her collaborators.
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Linda explores the movement of her foil sheet artwork.
Linda experiments billowing a foil sheet to create inflated shapes.
In front of her film projection, Linda swings her artwork, made of foil strips attached to an acetate sheet.
Linda wears her foil sheet artwork with mirror card and paper loops attached.
Linda attaches multiple blue foil strips onto a gold card sheet.
Linda swings her artwork, made of blue foil and gold sheets, in front of her film projection.
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Linda’s practice is inclusive and playful. It emphasises the pleasure of making and provides a space to explore non-verbal exchanges. Linda began sharing her live art practice through zoom sessions. During these sessions, participants were invited to echo Linda’s process of making. Linda explored new ideas during these sessions and established a system of delivery which could be scaled up for larger groups.
In May 2021, Linda began working via zoom with The Garden School, a school with highly specialised provisions for learners with autism in Hackney, London. Students were sent the same materials as Linda. Linda shared her process via zoom and students were invited to create artwork alongside her during the sessions. Throughout the workshops, a visual and creative bond formed between Linda and the students and a distinct sense of sharing and working collaboratively emerged.
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Linda shared her practice with students from The Garden School. Linda worked with the students via zoom. The students echoed Linda’s process of creating multiple loops from mirror card and coloured papers. They attached the loops onto a large foil sheet. Mimicking Linda’s actions, the students explored the textures and sounds of the artwork by billowing and shaking it.
