Events and media
Upcoming events
Doyles Art Prize - Landscape category finalist
Exhibition: 19-28 June
Firth Park Community Centre, Mudgeeraba
SURFACE Fenceline Exhibition
1-19 July
Miami, Queensland
St Hilda’s Festival of the Arts
7-8 August 2026
St Hilda's School, Granowski Auditorium, Southport
Let Colour Speak - mother-daughter duo exhibition with Jennie Bell
2 November 2026 - 5 January 2027
Gold Coast University Hospital
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Features and media
June 2025, Canvas Rebel interview: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-karen-mcphail-bell-phd/
2024 edition, La Raiz Magazine - Painting on page 34 “Treehouse”
March 2023, Redwood City Pulse, “Redwood City artist showcasing California-inspired art exhibit”: https://tinyurl.com/2ftvh49n
December 2022, Voyage Denver interview, “Karen McPhail-Bell’s Story”: https://tinyurl.com/2s5x4res
June 2022, Shoutout Colorado interview, “Meet Karen McPhail-Bell”: https://tinyurl.com/w28arptv
2022 edition, La Raiz Magazine - Painting on page 7 “You Gave Me the World”
2015, Doctorate Magazine - poem on page 14-15 “Endless Nameless”
Previous events
Solo and feature shows
“Let colour speak” - mother-daughter duo art exhibition with Jennie Bell
1-12 October 2025
Robina Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
‘Meet the artists’ - “Let Colour Speak” mother-daughter show
12-1pm, Friday 3 October
Robina Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
Solo exhibition (View here) - California, I’m coming home
3 March - 20 April 2023
San Mateo County Cafe Art Gallery
400 County Center, Redwood City, CA
Group shows
GC Creatives’ Aqua Limina: “The pulse of water, creek to coast”
1-18 April 2025
Multi-venue exhibition: Robina Art Gallery, HIVE Gallery, Hand Bent Banana
Side Gallery Ten Fold Small Works Exhibition
11-22 December 2025
7 Emma Street, Red Hill
Gallery 8 Pop Up Exhibition
21-29 November 2026
8 Ferry Road, Southport, QLD
SURFACE Fence Line Exhibition
29 June - 13 July 2025
Miami, Gold Coast, Australia
SWELL Art Prize
14-23 March 2025
Broadbeach Community Space, Gold Coast
SWELL Smalls Art Prize
1-17 March 2024
Broadbeach Community Space, Gold Coast
SKY
18 February - 26 March 2023
Drawing Room SF, San Francisco
SEA
3 December 2022 - 15 January 2023
Drawing Room SF, San Francisco, California
MOOD
November 2022
Art Fluent
Petit Moyen
8 July - 28 August 2022
Ingleside Gallery, San Francisco, California
May Day Art Show
1 May 2022
Santa Barbara, California
Public workshops - Australia
Reimagine your work and life with collage (Read more)
28 May 2025
Logan Art Gallery, Queensland
Transform your life through collage (Read more)
22 November 2025
Broadbeach Community Space, Queensland
Collage your way to clarity - arts-based coaching workshop (Read more)
22 March 2025
Burleigh Heads Library, Queensland
SWELL waterlines workshop: Make an expressionist artist book (Read more)
28 April 2024
The View Cafe, Hinze Dam, Queensland
Background photo by Vanessa Fitzgerald Scott (Instagram: @OrangeButterflyNess @VanessaFitzgeraldScott)