Struàn Bell is a Jersey-born Scottish-Irish visual artist and 2023 graduate of the Limerick School of Art and Design where he received a first class honours BFA in Sculpture and Combined Media. 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.

Bell’s work incorporates the mediums of object making, drawing, conceptual architecture, writing, painting, and video. 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.