Bella Deary is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based visual artist and PhD candidate at QUT whose art practice incorporates eco-centric installation art and art-science collaboration to dismantle the hierarchy between humans and the more-than-human world. Key materials of latex and video projection are utilised to create immersive, multi-media installations, sculptures, video artworks, and building façade projections. Deary’s practice is centred around ecocentrism: the belief that all natural life holds equal value and is grounded in a deep investigation of interspecies entanglement, kinship, symbiosis and art-science practices.
Bella is the recipient of an Australian Government RTP Scholarship (2021-ongoing); the 2024 Dorothy Birt Memorial Scholarship; the 2022 recipient of the CIESJ HDR Research Showcase Creative Work Prize; the 2021 Hilde Chenhall Memorial Scholarship; and the 2020 Milani Family Art Prize. She has exhibited widely throughout Australia, notably in exhibitions such as Swelter (Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, 2022); SWELL Sculpture Festival (Gold Coast, 2023); and Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial (HOTA, 2024). Additionally, upon completing a 2023 residency in Fiskars Village, Finland, she was selected to participate in the 2024 Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale. Bella is also a co-director of Nextdoor ARI, an artist-run initiative supporting emerging artists in South-East-Queensland.
