Drawing & Prints
b. 1993 Wellington, New Zealand
Lives and works in Crested Butte, CO
Recently featured in Design You Trust, Trendland, and Coveteur, McGoldrick’s hyper realistic drawings take 100 hours to produce and focus on objects and how they transform with use and time.
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“I’m attracted to the way objects reflect or hold light, their texture and their ability to create contrast within themselves.”
EDUCATION
2016, Bachelor of (Fashion) Design, RMIT University. Melbourne, Australia
EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS
2019, 15th Annual Thanksgiving Collective; What Have We Done?, South Hampton, NY
2016, MSFW Graduate Showcase, Australia
2014, Arts et Métier, Le Pave D’Orsay, Paris France
ARTICLES & FEATURES
2021, Affordable Art You Can Buy Online To Decorate Your Bare Walls, Coveteur
2020, Hyper-Realistic Drawings By Bella McGoldrick, Design you Truest
2019, Bella McGoldrick Hyper-realistic Drawings, Trendland
About Bella McGoldrick
Bella McGoldrick is an Australian artist, currently living in Crested Butte, CO. Her realism works on paper are made up of dynamic and curated subject matter, usually floating in the white space, reflecting used and pre-adored objects. She uses color pencils to create these works, often taking the artist 60 hours per piece, that can at first appear photographic. By playing with scale and composition, these items to which McGoldrick finnesses over enable her subjects to breath on the walls to which they’re hung. A depth is created where there was just white space, and the stories of these previously loved and handled objects leave the viewer to question “Whom did they belong to?”
