AMBER CRESWELL BELL
CURATOR, AUTHOR AND ARTIST MENTOR

Amber Creswell Bell is an art curator, author of books on the arts, lifestyle writer, public speaker, and artist mentor. With a deep passion for art and the humans who make it, Amber is well recognised for championing and educating emerging and unrepresented artists both in Australia and abroad. She was the Director of Emerging Art for Michael Reid galleries, curating both the emerging art and ceramics programs from 2019-2025. In 2021 Amber established the National Emerging Art Prize (NEAP) in collaboration with Michael Reid. Amber has been curator of the NEAP since its inception.

Amber has published seven art books with Thames & Hudson to date: Her first book, Clay, released October 2016, showcases over 50 contemporary ceramic artisans from Australia and abroad. Amber’s second book, A Painted Landscape, released in October 2018, profiles the diverse work of 50 of Australia’s landscape painters. 2021 saw the release of Amber’s monograph on artist Ken Done ‘Art. Design. Life’, as well as Still Life – a compilation of Australian still life painters which won Illustrated Non-fiction Book of the Year at the Indie Book Awards. Australian Abstract, was released in March 2023, and was awarded Illustrated Book of the Year at the Australia Book Industry Awards. Her most recent book, About Face was released in September 2024. Amber’s latest book, Exposure, surveying 40 photographers from AU/NZ was released in September 2025.