Kirsty Bell

Kirsty Bell is a visual Artist from Scotland, she generates elusive, shape-shifting images, creating work that strives for a proximity. Bell blends digital techniques and found components that have been gathered from the environment surrounding her. This allows her to form imagery that veers and oscillates between fictitious and real, looking at how we engage with images. Bell assembles and generates imagery that is collaged and manipulated through collaboration with AI and digital tools to bring about an image that has a nearness. Gathering generated images contributes to the slippyness Bell finds in her work. Using images that only exist from fragments of online shrapnel, she looks at the boundaries of simulation and authenticity, thinking about the real within the imaginary. Using these generated images, along with the painting technique of trompe l'oeil, she breaches the fourth wall between the painting and the spectator, stretching the plane of reality, connecting with the history of painting and play with that in a contemporary setting.