Tegan Bell

Tegan Bell is an artist interested in forming a sustainable and environmentally engaged practice. Her early work was largely built on conventional notions of portraiture and life drawing, a mode of working which soon became stagnant for her as she sought to challenge the basis of her own art making. Through the destruction and recycling of her previous work in an earlier series “Growth Cycles” Tegan found a true basis for environmentally friendly art as well as a new way to consider the life cycle of an artist’s creative output. This lead to creating artworks derived from environmentally friendly materials, using both a mixture of sustainable and recycled paper with reformed traditional paper making techniques. This concept of “eco- art” is an interest that she continues to develop, exploring the lifecycle of materials and creating intuitively abstract works that focus on colour and texture as well as expanding the philosophy of wabi-sabi aesthetics and the beauty of imperfection.