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Bella McGoldrick Filthy Rich For Sale
Bella McGoldrick
Filthy Rich
Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching
21 x 21 in 53 x 53 cm Artist Proof (AP)
About this work
Bella McGoldrick’s Filthy Rich turns something ordinary — a used bar of soap in a plastic dish — into a quietly ruthless commentary on luxury and status. Drawn with her signature hyperreal precision, the work features a bar stamped “GUCCI,” surrounded by delicate soap bubbles and subtle surface glare, rendered so faithfully it could almost pass for a photograph. McGoldrick is known for elevating everyday objects and souvenirs of modern life, and here she pushes that idea toward satire: cleanliness, excess, branding, and vanity all collapse into one immaculate, slightly absurd object. It’s both seductive and critical, reminding us how easily desire attaches itself to a logo — even on something meant to wash us clean.
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About Bella McGoldrick
Bella McGoldrick is an artist originally from New Zealand, raised in Melbourne, and now based in Byron Bay, Australia. She studied fashion design at RMIT, where she began sketching alongside her coursework, and later moved to New York City, where she supported herself by drawing custom portraits and everyday objects on commission.
McGoldrick works primarily in colored pencil and graphite, creating large scale, hyperrealistic drawings of ordinary objects: worn sneakers, crumpled receipts, half eaten food, and other items most people overlook. Her process is entirely hand drawn and largely self-taught, built around close observation and patience rather than photographic reference alone. She is particularly drawn to objects that show signs of wear, viewing that wear as evidence of personal use and memory.
Her work sits at the intersection of fine art and design, and she has built a direct relationship with collectors through her own studio and online platform. McGoldrick's drawings ask viewers to slow down and notice detail: the condensation on a glass, the crease in a fabric, the glint of light on a surface, transforming familiar, disposable objects into something worth holding onto.
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