The Artist
Giorgia Bel (b. 1990) is a self-taught artist who began painting in 2015 during a period of illness. What began as a means of coping soon evolved into a profound passion.
Bel’s practice is grounded in memory, imagination, and a tender, melancholic connection to place, person, and experience. Rendered in milky, dirtied-down colour and suffused with the shifting tones of dawn and dusk, her works evoke drenched landscapes alive with vitality. Skeletal trees emerge through Rothko-like washes, as the known and imagined dissolve into one another.
Her portraits explore intimacy, memory, and the emotional residue of lived experience. Rather than seeking to simply record likeness, Bel uses the figure as a vessel for remembrance and feeling, allowing bodies to emerge from dream-like fields of colour. The figures often inhabit a space between the familiar and imagined, evoking loved ones, fragments of memory, her own dream-time, and the quiet experiences of everyday life. In this way, her portraits become less about a singular moment and more about the shifting nature of how we remember and hold the people, places, and experiences that shape us. Underpinning Bel’s practice is a belief in art as medicine—a means of processing, preserving, and returning to the emotional landscapes of our lives.
Artist CV
Solo Exhibitions
Mother Dreams, Leda Gallery, Newcastle 2026
Intervals, HAKE.HOUSE, Sydney 2026
Quiet Certainty, Tappan Collective, USA 2026
Wading In The Water, Saint Cloche, Sydney 2025
Wonderment, Leda Gallery, Newcastle 2024
Vital, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney, 2023
Love Story, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney, 2022
Russh Through/Stare Still, Onwards Studio, Newcastle, 2022
Violets Are Blue, Maker Store, Newcastle, 2019
Duet Exhibitions
Inside Out (with Jordy Hewitt), Gallery Jones, Melbourne, 2024
Newcastle Artists Exhibition (with Annie Everingham & Britt Ferns), Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne, 2023
Warm Dormancy (with Loralee Jade), Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, 2023
From The Dust (with Britt Ferns), Leda Gallery, Newcastle, 2022
The Unraveling (with Daniela Cristello), Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne, 2022
Group Exhibitions
Exposition, Hake.House, Sydney 2026
SYNERGY, Hake.House, Sydney 2025
Landscape Salon, Boom Gallery, Geelong 2025
COLLECT, The Lock-Up Space, Newcastle 2025
Ornament, Leda Gallery, Newcastle 2023
Summer-Tide, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne 2023
Tracing Change, Modern Times, Melbourne, 2023
Summer Salon, Straitjacket, Newcastle, 2022
Clouds, Newcastle Art Space (NAS), Newcastle, 2022
At A Glimpse; The Beginning, Wester Gallery, Newcastle, 2022
Dawn, Leda Gallery, Newcastle, 2022
Balmy, Gallery Raye, Brisbane, 2022
Fountains & Follies, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, 2022
Art Annex, Showcase-X, Sydney, 2021
Residencies
Merci Mansion, Sydney 2022
Krinklewood Estate, Hunter Valley, 2025
Stockists
Leighton Contemporary, Queensland, 2021-
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, 2021-
Sunday Salon, Melbourne, 2020-
Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne, 2019-
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Key Dates
Tappan Collective — January, 2027