Struàn Bell is a Jersey-born Scottish-Irish visual artist and recent graduate of the Limerick School of Art and Design where he received a first class honours BFA in Sculpture and Combined Media. Bell’s work incorporates the mediums of object making, drawing, conceptual architecture, writing, painting, and video and he has recently exhibited in The Douglas Hyde Gallery, the Complex Gallery and Ormston House. Bell is also a member of The Douglas Hyde Student Forum 2024, a studio member of Sample-Studios Cork and is funded by The Arts Council of Ireland.

Bell’s practice is primarily informed by a deep understanding of the Sublime, a philosophical aesthetic concept describing the sense of awe, terror, and admiration in the face of immense greatness, whether physical, metaphysical, intellectual, or spiritual. As Bell sees it, the Sublime is the threshold where the tangible meets the intangible, the finite encounters the infinite and the mundane converges with the metaphysical. He explores the many aspects of the Sublime, with each medium investigating how the Sublime affects the vast landscape of the human psyche. These investigations, architectural, objective, written or otherwise, invite the viewer to consider their own relationship with the Sublime. Bell wishes for the viewer to contemplate his narratives of the Sublime and the concept as an experience where the lines between reality and abstraction blur.