Jennifer Bell

Jennifer Bell is an Australian contemporary artist known for her highly decorative paintings and paper weavings. Her intricate work explores pattern and visual perception often highlighting the beauty in the ordinary.

Jennifer's work is influenced largely by her experience of a little known neuro-ophthalmologcal condition which means she sees patterned dots in her visual field, continuously. These dots appear as a fine veil of dancing, kaleidoscopic colour that can never be turned off. Even on the calmest day and in the simplest of environments, surroundings that may seem static and plain to others are full of movement and decoration. Jennifer shares this unique experience of the world through her art. It has been suggested in recent years as more becomes known of the condition that artists such as Georges Seurat, the pioneer of pointillism, Van Gogh and Yayoi Kusama famous for her dots, may also have experienced the symptoms of visual snow disorder.

It may be a view not perceived by everyone, but no matter how we see the world, pattern still exists all around us both man-made and naturally occurring; from the beauty and complexity of fractals in nature to the printed fabric of your clothing.

Jennifer’s artwork often incorpo...

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Newcastle. She later attended the University of Technology in Sydney to study Visual Communication, London's Putney School of Art and Design and the Waverley Woollahra Art School in Sydney.

2022 The Pattern Pilgrim, Empire Revival, Paddington
​2021 Garden Art Exhibition, Plant Empire, Yerongpilly
2021 Making Do, Redcliffe Museum
2021 Landing (Brisbane Art Design Festival) Side Gallery
2020 Loom, Side Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Play with Paper, Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Strathpine
2019 Milburn Art Prize, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Women's Work, Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane
2018 The Weaving Room, Pine Rivers Gallery, Strathpine
2018 Variegated, Artworld Studio, Brisbane
2018 Regeneration, Aspire Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Natural Selection, The Mezzanine, Dayboro
2018 Moreton Bay Art Awards, Strathpine
2018 Milburn Art Prize, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Art Lovers Australia Finals, Left Bank Gallery, Gold Coast
2018 Snap18, Aspire Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Petite Pieces, Aspire Gallery, Brisbane
2017 Lethbridge 10000, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2017 Weaving Illusions, Left Bank Gallery, Gold Coast
2017 Landscape, Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane
2017 SNAP17, Aspire Gallery, Brisbane
2017 All Creatures, Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane
2017 Ipswich Art Awards, Ipswich
2017 Petite Pieces, Aspire Gallery, Brisbane
2016 Elemental Brisbane, Reverse Emporium, Brisbane
2016 Babies, books and rhymes, Ashgro...