All Outputs (16)

Circular ArtSpace Collective Art Exhibition (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Collective Art Exhibition (5-28 April 2024) Rebecca Bell Devotionals: Belonging Remembered 2024 Series of work, Ink and watercolour on paper As part of the New Starters research programme at UWE, Rebecca Bell is researching post-pastoral... Read More about Circular ArtSpace Collective Art Exhibition.

Writing Joyishly (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Workshop for the Association for Art History Conference 2024 University of Bristol, 3-5 April 2024 Session Convenors: Rebecca Bell, UWE Bristol; Clare Johnson, UWE Bristol; Rachael Miles, UWE Bristol; Jenny Rintoul, UWE Bristol; Joanne Lee, Sheff... Read More about Writing Joyishly.

Writing Practices in the Art School: Conference panel (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Writing practices are no less complex or more ‘knowing’ than making practices, and yet they continue to be mythologised in the Art School as cerebral, formulaic and Other to making. Writing has been cultured into artist and artist-teacher training as... Read More about Writing Practices in the Art School: Conference panel.

Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching (2022)
Journal Article

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathered momentum in 2020, it became clear that online teaching spaces risked a distancing from the embodied knowledge so necessary to creative education. Teaching written texts to creative practitioners is a process that cal... Read More about Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching.

Re-imagining the university through hope in pedagogy (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Co-authored conference paper exploring ideas of care, hope, nourishment and object-based teaching as part of a panel focused on 'Hope and the University'. With Dr Ana Baeza Ruiz (Loughborough University; Prado Madrid).

They hide with their boots on (2020)
Digital Artefact

Review of the Invisible Men exhibition, Westminster Menswear Archive, for Artforum Magazine (print edition).

Small paths (2020)
Journal Article

A personal creative non-fiction text published in the Hoosac Institute Journal - ‘Small Paths’ is about woodland, nature, countryside, childhood and miscarriage. Written during May 2020, it is also entangled in Covid19 era isolation.

Negotiations of socialist modernity: The Czech glass figurine (from the late 1940s-1960s) (2020)
Journal Article

This article presents the glass figurine as means of understanding making and socialist modernity in Czechoslovakia during the first two decades of Socialism (late 1940s-1960s). Through studying the work of glass artists such as Jaroslav Brychta and... Read More about Negotiations of socialist modernity: The Czech glass figurine (from the late 1940s-1960s).

Presentation at Sotheby's institute resulting from Decorative Arts Society funded research trip to Hungary (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In May 2018 I was awarded a bursary to join the Decorative Arts Society on their research trip to Hungary. After carrying out PhD research into applied arts, crafts and notions of national identity in Communist Czechoslovakia, I wished to expand my u... Read More about Presentation at Sotheby's institute resulting from Decorative Arts Society funded research trip to Hungary.

Design History Society: Imagining the international: repositioning peripheral narratives in global design histories [Panel Session Chairs] (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Dr Hui-Ying Kerr and Rebecca Bell were awarded the role of co-chairs by the Design History Society to build a panel of speakers exploring so-called 'peripheral' narratives in global design history, re-examining methods by which post-war cultural prac... Read More about Design History Society: Imagining the international: repositioning peripheral narratives in global design histories [Panel Session Chairs].

Making enhanced pin-up symposium (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On Saturday 21st January 2017, we at Making Enhanced hosted round table discussions at the Royal College of Art to inform the future of the collective. Building on the work in progress show from Collect Open 2015 (Saatchi Gallery), the four collabora... Read More about Making enhanced pin-up symposium.

Folk fever and the bureaucratic machine: Craft and design in early 1960s' Czechoslovakia (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research paper delivered as part of the Theorising Visual Art and Design (TVAD) inter-disciplinary research group at Hertfordshire University. The paper presented my research on Czech New Wave cinema and ethnographic craft practices in early 1960s So... Read More about Folk fever and the bureaucratic machine: Craft and design in early 1960s' Czechoslovakia.

Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970 (2016)
Journal Article

Critical Review of Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970, Publication and exhibition. UMPRUM Galle... Read More about Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970.

The pursuit of exceptional typicality: Glass-making in Communist Czechoslovakia (2016)
Journal Article

Article for Glass Circle Magazine exploring ideas of 'exceptional typicality' stemming from my PhD research, looking at the role of Czech glass figurines (and related glass objects) in Socialist Czechoslovakia.

Not for glory! Not for gain! Commemorative glass figurines at the Czechoslovak Spartakiad 1955 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper I discussed my research into a series of glass figurines created by artist Miloslav Klinger for the 1955 International Spartakiad in Prague. Mass gymnastics in Socialist Czechoslovakia were a key site for the visual representation of id... Read More about Not for glory! Not for gain! Commemorative glass figurines at the Czechoslovak Spartakiad 1955.

History in the Making: Experiment Invalidovna, Prague 1961 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper I discussed my research on social housing project Experiment Invalidovna (Prague, 1961) and the role of state-commissioned glass, ceramic and furniture designers