Bella McGoldrick (b. 1990) is an artist based in Byron Bay, Australia where she lives and works with her husband and twin boys. Over the past decade, she has built an independent studio practice that bridges fine art, design, and illustration, cultivating an international collector base drawn to her meticulous craft and poetic eye for the everyday.
Working almost exclusively in colored pencil, McGoldrick transforms overlooked fragments of daily life into luminous large-scale drawings. Coffee cups, crumpled napkins, tray remnants, and half-eaten desserts - mundane and disposable in reality - become monumental in her hands. Each work can take more than 100 hours to complete, constructed slowly, section by section, until layers of color, light, and texture turn the ordinary into something iconic.
Her practice is both technical and meditative. These still lifes speak to memory, domesticity, and consumer culture, but equally to tenderness and presence. In scaling up the disposable, McGoldrick challenges notions of value and permanence, creating quiet icons that ask viewers to pause and look again.
She has built a thriving market, with originals and editions regularly selling out and demand rising on the secondary market. Her work has been featured in design publications and brand collaborations while maintaining the intimacy and authenticity at the heart of her practice.
McGoldrick’s drawings are a slow rebellion against haste and disposability - an invitation to see beauty in the remnants of lived experience, and to recognize meaning in the smallest details of daily life.
