Gala Bell
Based London, UK
Gala Bell is a London based artist. The alchemy of matter is at the centre of her practice, moving between painting and installation.
Graduate of the Royal College of Art, she has been selected for exhibitions with The London Design Festival, The Design Museum, The Korean Cultural Institute Berlin, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz Berlin and Galerie der HBKsaar in Saarsbrucken. Bell has had commissions by BBC One and Tate and Lyle for her sugar sculptures, with a piece acquired by the Tate and Lyle archive in London.
She has been included in publications with Sotheby’s Made in Bed Magazine, Frieze Magazine, BBC One and The Talk at Ten panel discussion. She was shortlisted for the Ashurst Art Prize 2021, and has been selected for Saatchi’s ‘Rising Stars 2022’ with a special feature for Saatchi’s ‘One to Watch.’ She was an artist inn residence at Buckinghamshire New University and Villa Lena Art Foundation 2023.
Inspired by the prismatic nature of modern living, her work engages with ideas of value, taste, hierarchy and absurd labour. The work is the aftermath of a reaction to substance and situation, moving between traditional painting and contemporary installation where materials and actions become metonymic, swapping roles between building methods or kitchen techniques, exploring the possibilities of our encounter with art objects.
Press:
Frieze Magazine, No. 242, Venice Issue, April 2024, pg 142 featuring painting ‘Giant Steps’ at Unravelled group show Maximilian Wolfgang Gallery.
S|T Contemporary https://www.stcontemporary.
Osservatorio Transeuropa interview by Božidar Stanišić www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/
Artistellar Gallery https://www.artistellar.com/
Sotheby’s Made in Bed Magazine interview by editor in chief Rhiannon Roberts : https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/
Saatchi Art : One to Watch by Aurora Garrison: https://canvas.saatchiart.com/
Saatchi Rising Stars 2022 : https://www.saatchiart.com/
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/artist/
Art City Works written by Olivia Wilson https://www.artcityworks.com/
Voices Radio Slingshot Live Show 10th July 11-1pm, Gala Bell in conversation with Tahmina Negmat : Listen on Voices Radio
Talk and Ten Creative Entrepreneurs and West London’s Screen Industry, panel discussion: https://westlondonbusiness.
To the Studio interview podcast 2020: https://lnns.co/4-dsnH1l0If
Producers Art, PArt Talk Interview with Producers Art, PArt Talk 2020: https://www.instagram.com/p/
FAD Magazine Article in FAD Arts and Culture Magazine, Fry Up, https://fadmagazine.com/
Time Out Time Out, KCAW High Street Windows, https://www.timeout.com/
KCAW Kensington and Chelsea Art Week High Street Windows https://www.kcaw.co.uk/high-
FAD Magazine, KCAW High Street Windows, Fry UP https://fadmagazine.com
Collective Dry Magazine KCAW High Street Windows, Fry UP, https://www.collectibledry.
Royal Docks, written by Liz Bennett Interview with The Royal Docks, https://www.royaldocks.london/
Art Reveal Interview with Art Reveal, https://artrevealmagazine/
Dazed Digital Article in Dazed Digital, http://www.dazeddigital.com
Kill screen written by Cathy McCarthy Article on killscreen.com
Focus London Interview with Focus LDN, http://www.focusldn.com
Awards and Residencies:
- Cyclidic Arts Residency, Paros, Greece, July 2025
Shortlisted, British School in Rome, Abbey Awards 2025, Runner-up
- Villa Lena Art Foundation, artist in residence and Creative Contributor 2023
Selected as Guest Artist for Artist Access to Colleges at New Buckinghamshire University,
2022
- Imago Mundi - Recipient of Summer of Culture Grant, LBH 2022
- Ashurst Art Prize, shortlisted 2021
- Fountain of Hygiene, design shortlisted for Hygiene Innovation Beyond the Sanitiser,
- Bompas & Parr and The Design Museum 2020
- The Aidan Threlfall Award, The Goldsmiths’ Company, runner up, London 2011
- First Prize, Outstanding Work in Show, City and Guilds of London Art School, 2009
