TALK TO ME - An exhibition of installations and drawings by ELLEN BELL

5-10th March 2010

The Chapel Row Gallery, 6 Chapel Row, BATH, BA1 1HN

PILLOW TALK

How do you communicate with your lover? According to John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, men and women talk differently: women use the language of intimacy fluently but men struggle with it.  Is Gray right?

Bath artist Ellen Bell wants your help in finding out. As an integral element of her PhD research, and coinciding with Bath's Literary Festival 27^th February – 7^th March 2010, Ellen is producing a series of book and text-based drawings and installations exploring the use of emotional language within close relationships. These works will be exhibited at the Chapel Row Gallery in Bath from March 5-10 2010. 

The exhibition ‘Talk to Me’ is designed to trigger responses from visitors. The artist is particularly interested in whether encountering these artworks influences what couples feel about their intimate communication. As part of the project gallery visitors will be invited to complete a short questionnaire. Bell hopes to use these responses in making a dictionary of intimacy.

Bell is represented by Four Square Fine Arts – www.foursquarearts.co.uk. She has exhibited in London, New York, Chicago and Miami and her works are held in private collections in Europe, Australia and the USA. During the exhibition, on Saturday, March 6^th from 2.00 - 2.45pm, she will be giving a talk at the Gallery about her research and her artwork and she can be contacted via her website at ellen@ellenbell.co.uk

For further information about the works, interviews with the artist and/or jpeg images please contact Ellen Bell, Flat 17, The Regina, Bennett Street, BA1 2QE. Telephone: 01225 420944 Email: ellen.bell@virgin.net. Website: www.ellenbell.co.uk and www.axisweb/org/artist/ellenbell