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I will begin an 8 week residency in early January at Cardiff MADE, alongside 2 other artists; Kate Shooter and Eleanor Whiteman.   “We are excited to kick off 2024 with the second of our Associates programme, Rub n Roll, an 8 week practice based residency leading up to an exhibition in March. We’re delighted…

The call-out to Artists for Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2024 is now live. An exhibition I am curating with Amanda Roderick and Caroline Humphreys, will be a part of this year’s festival. ‘Deserters’ will explore the relationship between illness and making – does being one of the ‘unwell’, a ‘refusenik’, a ‘quiet-quitter’ engender creative processes?…

This Autumn, several of my works on paper will be included in an exhibition at Galerie 115, University of Ottawa, Canada. Play is a Roomy Subject will be curated by Celina Jeffery in collaboration with uOttawa MFA Contemporary Curating students. My drawings will feature alongside work by several Canadian artists and the following artists with links to Wales: Hamish…

This May, Bella Kerr will be co-curating The Coming of Age with Roderick & Jones as part of Fringe Arts Bath 2022. The call-out to Artists is now live and the deadline is Sunday 20th March 2022⁠. Further details about The Coming of Age can found here ⁠For more information about the FaB Festival and…

Produced by Lyndon Jones & Bella Kerr for BBC Wales. Broadcast on BBC Radio Four on Saturday November 27th 2021. Listen here Taking his cue from this year’s Turner Prize shortlist of five artists’ collectives, James Fox tells the untold story of community and socially-engaged art in post-war Britain. Concrete cows. First World War soldiers…

Revealing Wales: series 2 continues RSAW’s celebration of the nation’s great buildings and structures. The intention of this second series of four short films is to introduce new voices and promote greater awareness and understanding of buildings that enable and support learning, wellbeing, community and sustainability in Wales.  Maggie’s Swansea & Maggie’s Cardiff Safety, security,…

“It is time for a complete redefinition of how we do all that happens around visual practice”. Bella Kerr Q&A with R&J Projects in March 2021 R&J: What are you working on at the moment? BK:With Lyndon Jones, I have started work on a second series of short films about architecture in Wales for the…

During early February, Bella Kerr took over the R&J Instagram page for a week posting updates on current work alongside selections from past projects. DAY ONE: Monday 8th February Red Ball is a project which began in 2011 and remains ongoing. I started it in a hurry – I was offered the project space at…

This summer saw the launch of Revealing Wales, a set of short films Bella Kerr co-produced with Lyndon Jones Media. Commissioned by the RSAW, this first series of films celebrates the richness, quality and diversity of Welsh architecture, from the historical to the contemporary. They feature five distinguished figures each writing about a structure they love. Architect and Richard Parnaby discussing…

Originally published for touchstone | Architecture in Wales, 2016.