Vi Bell is a mixed media visual artist based in Tipperary. A graduate of the Limerick School of Art and Design, she brings a thoughtful and immersive approach to materials, exploring their tactile and visual qualities as well as their emotional resonance.
After a dynamic career in project-based business roles, Bell turned to art as a way to explore the quiet narratives within stillness.
Expanding beyond her studio-based practice, she is now exploring community-engaged art, finding a deep sense of purpose in collaborative and socially driven projects.
Selected Projects/Exhibitions/Events
Recent projects:
December 2024 - March 2025 | Arts & Health Awareness Day + Creativity Sessions with Nenagh Hospital patients, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. Role: Artist Facilitator
A two-stage project involving creative work with hospital staff, visitors (including children); patients (including patients with dementia and amputation), as well as providing key insights that will inform a report on future art programming for the hospital. The project was supported by the Arts Council, the HSE Midwest Healthy Ireland, Creative Ireland Tipperary in association with Réalta, and Tipperary County Council Arts Office.
May 2024 - Jan 2025 | "Handled with Care" - an initiative designed to transform the cafeteria of the University Maternity Hospital in Limerick into a vibrant and engaging space through a community-driven art installation. Role: collaborator
Exhibitions:
4-23 Dec, 2024 | North Tipperary Artists Collective Group Show, Nenagh
11-27 Oct, 2024 |Crossing Boundaries, NTAC Exhibition, Limerick
18-22 Sept, 2024|Culture Night Group Exhibition, Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland
May 4, 2024 - Sept 4, 2024|Green Acres All Summer Art Exhibition, Green Acres Gallery, Wexford, Ireland
Sept 2023 | Sunflowers/Soniashnyk Art Exhibition, Culture Night 2023, Ireland
4 June - 4 July, 2023 | 'Adversum Vorsum' Solo Exhibition, ArtD Gallery, Ireland
Dec 9, 2022 - Jan 28, 2023 | Winter 2022 Group Exhibition, The Narrow Space Gallery, Ireland
July 3 - August 27, 2022 | Hidden Histories Group Exhibition, Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2022, Ireland
May 2021|RALLY, LSAD Grad Show 2021, Ireland
Past projects and activity:
March 2021 | Oral presentation on art-and-science research at the 8th All Ireland Conference of Undergraduate Research (AICUR)
Sept 2020 - June 2021 | Limerick City Gallery of Art, Phase 1 of 39th EVA International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Collaborative project 'Parklife Project EVA', The Soil Team, Ireland
Feb 2020|LSAD Drawing Awards finalist, Ireland