The Living room — Fugue Gallery
Part of a group exhibition exploring bio-design in the home. New York, New York 2025.
[re]Configured threads reconfigured threads
Through repurposing discarded textiles by joining them with mycelium, the vegetative part of fungi, Bella alters the parameters for what is ‘useful’ and what is ‘valuable’. Paris, France 2025.
Touch and Go
An analysis and exploration around the concept of touch, focusing on the physical and emotional touches that occur when collaborating with the other-than-human. Published in the Touch issue of Simulacrum, 2024.
"A, B, or C ? Which is Me ?" Printing Fashion Issue 3, 2023
An article detailing the history of personality tests and how have they transform our identities published in Printing Fashion #3, 2023.
Re-setting the stage: An Analysis of Set design waste and bio design possibilities
This thesis researched the systems within set design for fashion shoots and fashion shows that contribute to waste and a negative view towards used objects. Moreover, it looks to radical ways of creating and using objects to limit waste and shift the accepted paradigm of value.
Applied research took place in the form of interviews, assisting on set, and work with experimental design and material research studio Aléa.
The versace tales
Working with the archival team at Versace, Bella and Ella Deberardine, explored the dialogue between garments from Gianni Versace contrasted to those from Donatella Versace.
Exhibited May 2022.
Fashionable discourses – ‘the rage to recycle’
An exhibition researching how sustainability is viewed, marketed, and explored from 1990-2001.
Exhibited at Galerie D in 2021.