Aundrea Bell - Projects, Exhibitions & Participations

ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice is rooted in ceramic sculpture and in forms that carry memory in their shape—animals, vessels, architectural fragments, and markers. Drawing on older visual languages, I explore how these forms remain active in the present. Through scale, surface, and repetition, the sculptures move between artefact and organism, body and object, holding traces of deep time and lived experience.

Clay is not simply a medium within my practice, but part of the thinking itself. I build forms by hand, often reducing them to matte, distilled surfaces that retain traces of touch, time, and transformation through fire. Meaning emerges through this negotiation between maker and material.

PROJECTS

Menae Vessel (Aryballos)

Year of creation: 2025
Stoneware, salt glazed

Dimensions: 12×7 cm (approx.)

A pin marks a place without defining it. Pin (Harpy) draws on this simple gesture. Its tapering ceramic form invites orientation rather than explanation, occupying an ambiguous territory between sculpture, architecture, and artefact.

Relief images of harpies appear on opposing faces of the work. As hybrid beings associated with wind, transition, and passage, they reinforce the sculptures relationship to movement, threshold, and presence.

Pin (Harpy) offers a point of orientation around which significance gathers through repeated passage, attention, and acts of marking.

Epithet for Dawn (Triad)

Year of creation: 2024
Stoneware, unglazed, variable dimensions

Epithet for Dawn (Arrangement Study)

Year of creation: 2026
Stoneware, unglazed, variable dimensions

White Horse, Timeless Creatures

Year of creation: 2025
Stoneware, unglazed
Dimensions: 34 × 44 × 14 cm

Black Owl, Timeless Creatures

Year of creation: 2025
Stoneware, unglazed
Dimensions: 36 × 20 × 28 cm

Black and White Bulls, Timeless Creatures

Year of creation: 2025
Stoneware, unglazed
Dimentions: 18,5 × 12,5 × 26 cm each

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 Concurs Internacional de Ceràmica de l’Alcora (CICA)Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora, L’Alcora, Spain

2026 Mappings (Χαρτογραφήσεις) — Art in a box, Platforms Project, curated by Elissavet Dionysopoulou, Athens, Greece (forthcoming)

2026 Heat is LifeCurated presentation, Folegandros, Greece

2025 1000 Vases Paris Design Week, Paris, France

2025 Timeless CreaturesCurated presentation, Eltop Material & Design Centre, Athens, Greece

2024 Camere con VistaThe Architect Show (TAS), Athens, Greece

EARLIER INSTALLATION & IMAGE-BASED PRACTICE

2017–19 Rosé Palm Environmental installation, suspended triptych, and image-based works developed in collaboration for the performance Rosé Porn by artist Zoja Smutny. Presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario and Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Darling Foundry, Montreal; and Dancemakers, Toronto.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2016 Shortlisted Artist, Athens Photo Festival Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH

Mentorship with Andreas Katsilieris, 2022–present

Participant, Matters of Concern workshop with Chryssa Kotoula, Spring Open Days, Onassis AiR, Athens, 2026

Professional Development Programme for Artists, The Clay Commons, 2025

Independent research in sculptural practice and Mediterranean material traditions, 2022–present

SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

2026 — Concurs Internacional de Ceràmica de l’Alcora (CICA), exhibition catalogue, Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora
2025 — “Aundrea Bell on Ancient Forms and Contemporary Clay,” elculture, English edition
2025 — 1000 Vases, Paris Design Week, exhibition catalogue

COLLECTIONS

Private collection of Paolo Cuculi, Athens, Greece 

Private collections in Canada, France, Greece, the Netherlands, and Spain