Richard Bell
Artist / Painter
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| 1973 - 77 | Studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Department of Fine Art, and Illinois University, USA. |
| 1978 | Received Southern Arts Council Bursary |
| 1983 | Paintings Purchased by ACGB. |
| 1986 | Co-initiated touring exhibition 'colour presentations' supported by Welsh Arts Council. |
| 1989 | Co-initiated and co-organised touring exhibition ‘complexions’ supported by British Council. |
| 1991 | Print in ‘Blank Page’ (No.4) collected by various collections including Tate Gallery, London, and Museum Modern Art, New York. |
| 1992 | Paintings Purchased by the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (UEA). |
| 1992 | Painting acquired for the Foundation IDAC, Zoetermeer, Holland |
| 1994 | Painting acquired for The Mondiaanhuis, Amersfoort, Holland (1994) |
| 2003 | Painting acquired for permanent collection, FORUM KONKRETE KUNST ERFUT, Germany. |
| 2009 | Drawings purchased for the FORUM KONKRETE KUNST ERFURT |
| 2016 | Conversation with Michael Parsons' published in Saturation Point http://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/Michael_Parsons_interview.html |
| 2017 | Painting acquired for The Mercus Barn Collection http://www.themercusbarn.com/thepermanentcoll.html |
| 2017/2018 | Curated 'Transforming Surfaces' exhibition at Arthouse1, London (June 2018) with catalogue and published artists conversation On line catalogue Conversation transcript |
| 1979 | 'Artists Books' Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern. |
| 1981 | House Construction Show' House Gallery, London. |
| 1985 | 'Drawings' Exhibiting Space, London. |
| 1986 | 'Colour Presentations' : paintings by six artists working within a systematic constructive art practice'. Travelling exhibition supported the Welsh Arts Council: Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex, Wrexham Library Arts Centre; Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, London, Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery. |
| 1986 | 'On the Concept of Colour Presentations', Exhibiting Space. |
| 1986 | 'Systematic Constructive Drawings' Wentworth Gallery, University of York. |
| 1987 | 'Four Systematic Constructive Artists' Playhouse Gallery, Harlow |
| 1987/1989 | '1000cm Geometrical Miniatures' Galerie de Sluis, Holland/ Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafer, Rhein. |
| 1988 | 'Null-Dimension' Galerie New space, Fulda, Germany. |
| 1989 | 'Symposium of systematic and constructive art', Centro Culltural de la villa, Madrid. |
| 1989 | 'Complexions', Galerie L’Idee, Zoetermeer, Holland/ Dean Clough Art Gallery, Halifax (with David Saunders and Nicole Charlett) |
| 1990 | 'Blank Page No 4', Exhibition and Publication of Prints, London |
| 1991 | 'Constructivist Forum' Issue 10 - Publication of Prints |
| 1993/1994 | '30x30', Galerie L’Idee, Holland/ Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Germany / Mondriaanhuis, Holland. |
| 1996 | 'New Works' Art in Offices (with David Saunders), London. |
| 1998 | 'Grossbritannien' - Konstruktiv - Konkret, Erfurt - Germany |
| 2003 | '10-Zehn-X, FORUM KONKRETE KUNST e.V. |
| 2006 | FORUM KONKRETE KUBST ERFUT in Mainz, Germany |
| 2008 | 2008 'Constructed' 40 years of the UEA collection. Sainsbury centre for visual arts. |
| 2011 | 'Hommage an eine Grundergeneration', Institut fur Technische Form, Darmstadt |
| 2014 | 'Hommage an eine Grundergeneration',Burgerstiftung, Osnabruck |
| 2016 | 'Eye and Mind' paintings by Richard Bell 2014-2016, Mercus Barn, Ariège Pyrenées, France |
| 2017 | 'Ground, Rules, Paintings: A Quartet', La Galerie Lycée Gabriel Fauré, Foix, Ariège Pyrenées. |
| 2017 | 'Le Salon des Réalités Nouvelles', Paris. |
| 2017 | 'entr'acte : intermission', AbstractProject Galerie, Paris. |
| 2017 | The Mercus Barn Collection |
| 2018 | 'Transforming Surfaces', Arthouse1, London. |