Richard Bell has been an activist for half a century. Now he's telling his story

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Bell began making art in his early 30s, figuring out it was a way to pursue his activism, without getting arrested.

Richard Bell's history as an activist informs his firebrand works, which dissect Australian society's racism.

"We're just coming out of the 1960s, and that was really quite challenging for us. When I was born we weren't allowed to live in towns . . . I was born in 1953," he said. It was the spirit of Redfern that pushed Bell to activism, he campaigned for Land Rights and got a job at the Aboriginal Legal Service.

"What I was told early on was that I could say and do more in art and not get arrested so that was pretty attractive to me."

 

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