Pillow Talk, 2024

Pillow Talk explores cultivating an air of self-assurance and sometimes pageantry when it comes to being out in the world. Wanting to be seen as beguiling and soft/ and at the same time masculine and raw. It’s about embracing an imaginative interior landscape.

Bella Insch is an emerging visual artist with a developing studio-based practice. Bella grew up on Yuin Country and currently lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne). She holds a Graduate Diploma and Master of Art Therapy as well as a bachelor’s degree in visual arts (Majoring in sculpture and drawing). Bella is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Her work explores the complexity of interpersonal intimacies, religious iconography and personal narratives of loss and belonging. As well as Mechanic’s Warehouse in Pambula, Bella has exhibited at Precinct Gallery in Berry, Belconnen Arts Centre, Crackpot Studios and Gallery in Sydney and Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne. She has shown at the Motel Art Fair in Bermagui, Mechanics’ Botanics, The Canberra Potter’s Society, Spiral Gallery, and the Thursday Plantation Sculpture Show. Bella has worked as an artist’s assistant and has participated in artists-in-residence programs at Belconnen Arts Centre and Milton. Bella can be found at InkandBrush on Instagram.