Struàn Bell is a Jersey-born Scottish-Irish visual artist working across drawing, sculpture, painting, and art writing. He holds a First Class Honours BFA in Sculpture and Combined Media from the Limerick School of Art and Design, and his work has been exhibited at institutions including The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Complex, and Ormston House. He was a member of The Douglas Hyde Student Forum (2024), is a studio member at Sample-Studios, Cork, and is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland.

Bell’s practice explores symbolic systems, constructed spaces, and the tension between clarity and ambiguity. His work often includes imagined architectures, ritual and text objects, isolated vignettes, or speculative scenes, each suggesting a function or consequence that remains undefined.

At the core of his practice is an engagement with speculative function: the idea that forms can imply purpose, belief, or transformation without ever revealing their use. These works exist as fragments of possible systems, architectural, spiritual, or psychological, where consequence is implied but never resolved.

His practice is grounded in the construction of symbolic form and spatial logic, drawing on esoteric imagery, architectural suggestion, and ongoing philosophical inquiry. His writing and research frequently return to the Sublime, not as a historical category, but as an enduring condition of awe, rupture, and metaphysical unease. He creates spaces in which meaning feels suspended or sacred in its isolation, inviting reflection on the limits of interpretation and the charge of the unknown.