Original sentence: Bell was born in Charleville, Queensland in 1953 he came to the attention of the wider community after his painting 'Scientia E Metaphysica (Bell's Theorum)' won the 2003 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.Richard Bell is an Australian painter
Edited sentence: As he stated in the acceptance speech on the night, "I am my art, my art is me".Australian Artist.Bell's win in this prize was to provide not only a boost in recognition in the wider community but to facilitate the rise of his artistic career and to strengthen his voice as an activist and provide a much bigger stage on which to project that voice.Born in Charleville, Queensland in 1953 he came to the attention of the wider community after his painting 'Scientia E Metaphysica (Bell's Theorum)' won the 2003 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.It is doubtful that Bell will tone down anything for anyone and why indeed should he.On the night of the award his t-shirt caused more ripples with the white on black lettering, announcing, "White Girls Can't Hump", causing a parliamentary debate and an anti-descrimination case and even some calls for his award to be taken back.Richard Bell is a forthright individual who says exactly what's on his mind.Telstra's NT General Manager, Danny Honan heaped further praise on Bell saying, " It was great to see that he didn't try to change himself just for the art awards"