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An award-winning artist. Cunningham-Bell's Art career started when she was 16 years old winning three commissions from the Bank of Ireland, Belfast. Her degree work won a prize, which funded her postgraduate studies. Work has been exhibited and collected in Ireland, New York, France, Luxembourg, Scotland, Canada, America, Switzerland..
C-Bs work has won commissions from: The Mater Hospital, The Hastings Group, Routledge Press London and New York, Bass Ireland, Nottingham University, J.D. Wetherspoons, Victoria College Belfast amongst a few. Private clients have come from an array of backgrounds and Countries.
Belfast born Artist, Cunningham-Bell, works out of a studio on the North Coast of Ireland. Central to her work is the endeavour to interrupt the dualisms that divide up the lived world, forming the realities we seek to inhabit. The most important of these being, spirit / matter. The Art negotiates this quandary, in an effort to present the truth of beauty---a truth that cannot be dependent on the ugly.
Cunningham-Bell employs a number of media, including sculpture, photography and painting.....
Her work has been described as:
.. dynamic and powerful
Vigorous and full of action yet subtle The Belfast Telegraph
Many times I go into a gallery and be taken a back by one or two paintings but I discovered I was drawn to each and everyone of Cunningham-Bell's. The colours are a powerful embracing bond that captivate one to linger.. Fitzpatrick (Designer, Ireland)
..her interest in the human form comes into its own. The materials used show the artist's understanding of and feeling for the medium in which she is working Roderick Duncan (Art Consultant)
The work of Cunningham-Bell has been exhibited in such places as: The McLellan Gallery Glasgow, Edinburgh Festival, Stills Gallery Edinburgh, The Compass Gallery Glasgow, Arles France, St Annes Cathedral, Belfast, The Engine Room, Belfast, Artforum Glasgow, the work represented Ireland in Grands et Jeunes D'Aujourd'Hui Salon 2000 in Paris, Luxembourg, Japan.
She has held 4 Solo Shows and 48 Group Shows across Europe whilst meeting Priavte and Commercial Commissions such as: The Imperial Wharf Hotel, London, The Custom House Quay, Dublin, Jurys Hotel, Glasgow, N.E. Council Northern Ireland, Deaf Awareness Group Scotland ..
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