Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 32 79 DEBORAH MARGARET BELL SOUTH AFRICAN 1957– Untitled signed and dated 1995 in pencil chalk pastel on paper 113,5 by 77,5 cm R30 000 – 50 000 Deborah Bell was born in 1957. She received her B.A.F.A. (Hons) and M.F.A. degrees at the University of Witwatersrand, and has been an artist working abroad as well as a lecturer at various South African institutions. Bell explores notions of Africanness, mythology and multicultural references throughout her art. The role of memory and the ways in which memory traverses our personal lives and society prevails throughout her work. Bell works in a plethora of media from clay and bronze to paper and paint, creating works ranging in size from small and intimate to magnificent towering pieces. Bell’s transcendental works take on a spiritual process in which the beings emerge from her chosen medium, as if ritualistically or meditatively summoned. Bell has collaborated on various historically important projects with her contemporaries and co-forerunners of the resistance art movement such as William Kentridge and Robert Hodgins.