Deborah Bell exhibition

From 9 May, artist Deborah Bell will showcase a selection of her work with an exhibit entitled “Alchemy” at David Krut Projects in Cape Town.

Following her major solo exhibition “Presence” at Circa on Jellicoe in March and her recent “Collaborations II” show at David Krut Projects Johannesburg, famed painter Deborah Bell will be showing a selection of work on paper entitled “Alchemy” at David Krut Projects Cape Town.

Deborah’s work is fundamentally informed by a personal search for self and she often draws on spiritual imagery from a wide range of sources. Multi-layered references and connections to ancient sources and memories are linked to her spiritual beliefs and the way she defines herself as an artist in Africa.

This continuity of form and content within Bell’s opus allows the possible meanings within her work to reach beyond the personal search of the artist herself.

Bell says that the idea of an artist as a magician delights her. “It is about alchemy and the turning of base material into gold.”

Companion to “Alchemy” is a publication of the same name, which looks at the last ten years of Deborah’s collaborative printmaking. It highlights the start of her printmaking career alongside William Kentridge and Robert Hodgins and expands on her recent visits to Jack Shirreff (107 Workshop), Phil Sanders (Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop) and regular projects at David Krut Workshop (DKW) in Parkwood and the new location at Arts on Main with Jillian Ross, Mlungisi Kongisa and Niall Bingham.

Deborah Bell is also the subject of one of the TAXI-10 art books, a series of monographs on South African artists published by David Krut Publishing. A re-print of TAXI-10 recently became available.

Deborah’s “Alchemy” exhibition will run from 9 May to 30 July.

For more information, visit www.davidkrutprojectscapetown.com or call 021 685 0676.