Q-Art organise symposia and produce books and videos that feature interviews with further and higher education art staff from across a range of art schools and universities. Download two Bella Kerr interviews with Q-Art here: Q-Art interview with Bella Kerr | Bella Kerr & Amanda Roderick Q-art Interview ABOUTQ-Art are an events and publishing organisation…
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PUPAL SOUP(originally published for touchstone | Architecture in Wales, 2016) Last summer a cocoon appeared in Bute Park, spun between the trees in the shaded area near the Waterbus stop. TAPE was commissioned from Croatian artists’ collective Numen, through a collaboration between the RSPB and Migrations, who develop innovative arts projects in Wales and elsewhere.…
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CIVIC Building Blocks, 2014. Designed by Bella Kerr & Matthew Otten
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Downloads are available of much of the material from Keeper(s). These are primarily for educational use. If you have any questions regarding the usage of these materials, please contact studio@bellakerr.com Essays Bella KerrJane RendellKaren InghamKathryn FaulknerCiara HealyDenise KwanOwen GriffithsAlicia MillerAmanda Roderick Keeper(s) IntroJane Rendell visual essay PostcardsBella Kerr postcardsKathryn Faulkner postcardsKaren Ingham postcardsJane Rendell postcards…
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Venice Residency
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Word Room
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Bella Kerr: Civic Dog (Walks) I commissioned Matthew Otten, designer, to make 100 laser-cut slate dogs. The dogs were displayed at the Civic base – the glass porch of the old library building – until they were ‘distributed’ by participants on city walks, to be found (or lost) over future days, weeks or years. The…
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Oriel Davies, Newtown: 04 July 2009 – 05 September 2009 The research identified a series of spaces including redrooms – the parental bedroom and the dining room. Bedrooms are private, the site of confidences, negotiations, plans, dreams, love, hate, sex, birth, illness and death. The dining table is public, the site of rituals that display and support…
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CIVIC Collaborative Curatorial Residency at Residency Unlimited New York. Bella Kerr & Amanda Roderick | October/November 2016 Read more about CIVIC A collaborative investigation of the visible and invisible structures and infrastructures centred on and around the art gallery and other cultural organisations, considering the role of partnerships, dialogue, learning, opportunity and engagement. The collaborative…
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OPUS – Foundation Art & Design, Swansea, staff group In 2007 the staff of the Art and Designer course at Swansea decided to exhibit together for the first time. We took the name Opus from our first exhibition, Nascent Opus, and used it for some years as a way to present ourselves to the world…
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