"As a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman, and Gurang Gurang communities, Bell works across various media, including video, painting, installation, and text. His 2023 painting, Where is the Outrage?, reflects the style of Emily Kam Kngwarray, who is well represented in the collection, featuring layered dots that obscure text. Bell developed this technique in 2001, creating what he refers to as 'dot paintings' — a somewhat pejorative term used to describe central desert artworks — aimed at sparking discussions about authenticity and modernity… The phrase 'Where is the Outrage?' offers a political commentary on the ongoing prejudice, inequality, and extreme poverty experienced by Aboriginal peoples today. His technique also echoes Ishihara tests for colour blindness, embedding digits or figures within compositions of coloured dots to provide a statement about race, racism, and the misconceptions that persist around collecting Indigenous art."

— Myles Russell-Cook, Artistic Director & CEO, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, in Contemporary Art of the Everywhen, Two Collections