BIOGRAPHY

Sandra Bell was born in 1954. She was educated in Newry, Dundalk and at Glengara Park, Co. Dublin. She is a self-taught sculptor using the “Lost Wax Method” for bronze casting and finds great pleasure in the moulding and developing of a remarkable variety of simple linear patterns and flowing shapes. These figurative pieces are executed with high technical skill and craftsmanship, superbly finished with rich and varied patination’s and polished surfaces. They invite active participation. Sinuous, sensuous, elegant, graceful, tactile, feminine – these descriptive terms all apply to her work. There are many different influences in Sandra’s sculpture – Celtic, Classical, African and yet all her pieces have a uniqueness that is her own style. Her work is based on the human form, abstracting it to eliminate detail so that only the essential essence of the figure remains. Sandra portrays not the flesh, but the spirit and grace of humanity in bronze.

Since she began exhibiting in the late 1980s Sandra Bell has been developing and expanding her practice in cast bronze and fabricated metal sculptures. Bell has completed over twenty site-specific commissions to date. Recent commissions include Unity for Cherrywood Business Park Dublin and Teachers Inspire for Dublin City University, both unveiled in 2023, and her work sits in numerous collections, including the personal collection of William Jefferson Clinton, Setanta Communications Limited, Avonmore P.L.C., AIB, CITI Bank, and Bank of Ireland.