Artist Talk // Bella Fenton 'The Bogeyman'

Saturday 29 November, 11am-12pm

Hear from Foyer Gallery artist Bella Fenton discussing new exhibition The Bogeyman

FREE, all welcome, RSVP essential

About the Exhibition

In 2023, Bella Fenton won the Bathurst Grange Distillery (BGD) x BRAG Summer Gin Art Competition. Her artwork was reproduced on the BGD Summer Gin labels of that year, and Fenton was awarded a BRAG Foyer Gallery exhibition – an opportunity for a local emerging artist to present their artwork to a wide audience in a professionally staffed, celebrated Regional Gallery.

"Last week I had a nightmare where a stranger chased me into my car outside an Aldi in Wollongong – a place I haven’t visited in years. I thought I had escaped him until an arm reached out from beneath the passenger seat and tried to grab me. I woke up clutching my own hands so tightly I thought I might break my fingers.

"My series of paintings, The Bogeyman, explores the strangeness of nightmares and the shifting sense of identity that comes with living through these unreal timelines. Through recurring characters, the works form a twisting, disordered narrative in which a cowgirl becomes trapped in a world of horror drawn from both movies and everyday anxieties. The settings feel familiar yet slightly off, evoking unease and a dark, almost absurd humour as if things couldn’t possibly get any worse.

"Within these distorted, dreamlike memories, I confront my own sense of self. Every figure and fragment belong to me: I am the people I see in my sleep, the shifting buildings, the blurred recollections. I am the victim in the horror movie and I am also the bogeyman." - Bella Fenton

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