House and Home Exhibition

When

Location

Glasshouse Regional Gallery

House and Home Exhibition 
With Sue Bell

                 "...the house is a world in itself"

                 - Poetics of Space Bachelard,G. p37

House and Home is a reflection on moving house from a psychological, imagined and remembered experience.

“I think the first works reflect a more wistful feeling and after the move a subtle change takes place. There is a visual connection between some of this work and a previous exhibition titled Young at Heart shown at Grafton Regional Gallery. Memory was a strong trigger for this work.” SUE BELL 2023

In a poem by Emily Dickinson on houses she is told what they should be.

          "Houses”-so the Wise Men tell me –

          “Mansions”! must be warm!
          Mansions cannot let the tears in,
          Mansions must exclude the storm!"
         - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, p59.

Image Credit: Red Roof, 2022, acrylic on canvas 

Sue Bell

Lives and works in Port Macquarie

Sue Bell spent her early years practicing the craft of painting, working in the landscape and studying still life with a tutor from the Ashton’s school of painting in Sydney.

Her contemporary work began in 1995 while studying with Southern Cross University in NSW. Sue’s practice includes painting, digital photography, assemblage and artist’s books, drawing inspiration from Eastern cultures and their approach to art and philosophy.  Sue has exhibited regionally and in Sydney and has artworks as part of Port Macquarie Hastings council collection as well as in private collections in Sydney, Melbourne, Japan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, UK, France and USA.