[2] In 2003, Bell co-founded the Indigenous art collective proppaNOW, with Jennifer Herd, Vernon Ah Kee, Fiona Foley and others.
[6] Bell caused controversy in April 2011 after revealing that he had selected the winner of the prestigious Sir John Sulman Prize through the toss of a coin.
[9] In March 2012, Bell won a court case against a person who had issued a take-down notice in 2011, for "unjustifiable threats of copyright infringement", and was awarded A$147,000 in damages, setting "an important precedent".
[15] Bell says that the work "represents a number calculating how much money the Australian Government owes Aboriginal people — and that's just for the rent of the place".
The interior of the Embassy tent functions as a display space, in which videos and other archival materials are shown, and for hosting public talks and performances, and informal conversations.
In mid-2022, the work was installed on Friedrichsplatz, in front of Fridericianum, a museum in Kassel, Germany, as part of the international quinquennial exhibition Documenta fifteen.
The canvass Embassy tent was erected in Melbourne's Federation Square as part of 'The Blak Infinite' program surrounded by painted protest signs reminiscent of the original.