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Saint Cloche is delighted to present Wading In The Water, a deeply personal and contemplative body of work by Newcastle-based artist Giorgia Bel. Marking a return to self and to nature, this exhibition explores the cyclical rhythms of renewal through the metaphor of water - its restorative presence in our lives and its intrinsic connection to the land.

Rendered in milky, dirtied-down pastels and suffused with the tones of dusk and night air, the works evoke a drenched landscape, full of life and quiet vitality. The exhibition is a poetic expression of resilience - of wading through resistance, emerging transformed, and honouring the land’s own thirst for renewal.

“I’ve been thinking about the water - how we are born from it, how we renew in it, how water makes up not a small portion of what we are, how we move through it in so many ways.


I reconnect with the water this Summer. It’s coolness, the way it leaves me clean, and rinses my mind. I walk out of it what feels like a new person.


This collection is about one’s coming into a new era. Becoming anew.”

Giorgia Bel

Giorgia Bel (b.1990) is a self-taught artist who began painting in 2015 during a period of illness. What began as a means of coping became a profound passion. Bel’s practice is grounded in memory, dream, and a tender, melancholic connection to place.

With skeletal trees and Rothko-like washes, her landscapes blend the seen and the imagined, guided by a philosophy of art as medicine.


Instagram.com/giorgiabelartist

Giorgia Bel

Giorgia Bel (b.1990) is a self-taught artist who began painting in 2015 during a period of illness. What began as a means of coping became a profound passion. Bel’s practice is grounded in memory, dream, and a tender, melancholic connection to place.

With skeletal trees and Rothko-like washes, her landscapes blend the seen and the imagined, guided by a philosophy of art as medicine.


Instagram.com/giorgiabelartist

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37 MacDonald St, Paddington NSW Australia 2021


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