Said like TEA, not like BEE-AH or BAE.

Bea Bellingham is an English-born, Australia-based artist who has spent her entire career trying to find where she left the marker she was holding two seconds ago.

She started as a fine art portrait painter, became an illustrator and designer, then wandered off into ceramics for a while. These days she mostly makes weird and wonderful objects for people who enjoy a bit of chaos.

Most ideas start as a drawing on Bea’s kitchen bench before eventually turning into colourful hair claws shaped like pigeons, worms, raccoons and other questionable little guys. They’re made from plant-based cellulose acetate, which means they’re strong enough to handle even Bea’s famously curly-wurly feral hair.

There are also stickers. Many stickers. Usually about overstimulation, ADHD brains, feminism, or the general experience of being a person in the modern world.

For most of her life Bea assumed she might just be a bit weird. It was a bit lonely.

But it turns out there are quite a lot of weird little weirdos out there.

And it feels really nice to have found them.