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Artwork Description

In the early 2000s, Bell wrote a formative essay, Bell’s Theorem: Aboriginal Art—It’s a White Thing!, in which he outlined the historical mythmaking, economic imbalances, structural repressions, and representational exploitations of the system of Aboriginal art, controlled mostly by the white art world. Since then, he repeatedly produced works that mix references to the traditional “dot painting” often associated with “authentic Aboriginal art” with explicit political messages such as “I am not a Victim”, “You can go now”, and “White Lies Matter”. By the time of the global Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, Bell began creating a new series of works using other traditions of Dot Paintings, including ironic references to post-Impressionism, Color Blindness charts, and Abstract Expressionism, to embed his messages in almost subliminal ways.