“My work centres around questions about the human condition and what it is to be human. I am constantly drawn to the paradox between the idea of the uniqueness of the individual and the fact that humans are just one of billions of organisms that inhabit the planet.”

“As our scientific knowledge increases, the paradox does not become any easier to understand and the gap widens between our knowledge of the world and our understanding of ourselves as humans.
The questions I am asking are about how we relate to our environment and how we relate to each other. My installations often involve an element of public participation and this involvement with people of all ages is central to my practise.”

Diana Bell works at Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, where she is director. Her work is mixed media installation, sculpture and public art. Diana is active in international exchanges and has exhibited in France, Romania and Germany as well as the UK. She has been Artist in Residence in many different settings and examples of her public art can be seen in the Oxford area. The most recent are some bronze pieces for Kingsoak development near Waitrose and a large sculpture for Lidl Supermarket in Oxford.

Diana is currently working on a project at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and preparing an exhibition for Grenoble, France, in October 2008.