About The Artist

British artist Debra Franses Bean makes handbag sculptures that challenge the way handbags are traditionally portrayed as a closed and secretive intimate female space. She also paints canvasses that depict the female form in various states of comfort and anxiety. Graduated from Central Saint Martins in London she started ARTbag in New York in 2009. Her work plays critically with whimsy as she takes on the role of global consumer and voyeur. Her sculptures are unique and highly polished transparent resin handbags containing consumable objects from their imagined owners. Together with her paintings we enter an unspoken and psychological dialogue with object and body language. Her latest solo show is The secret language which examines this space. Debra is internationally represented by well known galleries based in London, New York, Palm Beach, Antwerp,Paris and Holland and has shown at many of the major world art fairs in the last 4 years. Please visit Www.dfbean.com where you can see more of her work and buy direct form the artist.