Bel Bare (b. 1972, Australia) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work plays in the space where animals, symbols and modern life overlap. Her practice is informed by two decades of studying mysticism, a love of the natural world (including the folkloric use of herbs), and years spent living in the Laurentian Mountains near Montréal and later in Paris. Bel’s art carries a countercultural pulse—surf-gothic sun-and-shadow, street colour, and a soft obsession with the strange. She is the founder of Fauun and Daggerbird (a micro streetwear label), and the author of the novel 1991 (republished in 2025 as Breaking the Girl).