Dick Jewell

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Dick Jewell is a London born and based multidisciplinary artist. Jewell graduated from the Royal College of Art with a Masters in Printmaking in 1978. His practice encompasses photomontage, photography, film-making and book publishing.

His diverse and fascinating career includes running his own record label in the 80s, releasing albums for Gregory Isaacs and Prince Far I and collaborating with artists including Neneh Cherry and Massive Attack. He has directed over 50 films, many of which have been shown internationally at the Venice Biennale, Tate Liverpool, MOMA Sydney, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the ICA. His work is represented in public collections, including the Stedelijk Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, and Leeds Art Gallery to name a few.

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Books

2015
Four Thousand Threads

Self Published.

2001
Hysteric Glamour

Published by Hysteric Glamour / Nobuhiko Kitamura.

1979
Found Photos

Self Published.

Exhibitions

2023
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Royal Academy, London

2022
The Horror Show!: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain

Somerset House, London.

2022
Dick's In The House

Screening at Penthouse, Margate

2022
Kunst The Clown & Friends

Gallery 46, London

2021
Faces

Sion and Moore, London.

2019
Now and Then

Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

2019
Pause, Poise, Pose

Exhibition at The Departure Lounge, Luton.

2018
Leigh Bowery, The Serpentine Performance

11m2 Gallery, Berlin

2018
Print in the Post Print

Exhibition in Hangzhou

2017
Queer Noise

Peoples History Museum, Manchester

2017
As You Change So Do I Culture Wall

Exhibition in Luton

2016
Unstable Monuments

Exhibition in Truro

2016
So Many Steps, So Little Time

De Bond, Bruges

2015
Stopping the Sun in its Course

François Ghebaly, Los Angeles

2015
The 1st CAA Printmaking Biennial

Exhibition in Hangzhou

2014
The Last Breath

Exhibition at Clearlake Hotel, London

2014
Keywords: Art, culture and society in 1980s Britain

Tate, Liverpool

2013
A Journey Through London’s Subculture: 1980s to Now

ICA Off-Site, London

2012
Black Queens, White Lies, Red Herrings, Queen Charlotte

Exhibition in Ramsgate

2013
Otherness. I Is Somebody Else

Louis Vuitton Espace Culturel, Paris

2012
Masquerade

Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul

2011
Your Garden is Looking a Mess Could You Please Tidy it up

Payne Shurvell, London

2011
The Male Gaze

Exhibition in New York

2010
…and then again…

Exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal

2010
Jewell

Rachmaninoff's, London

2009
Making A Scene

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2009
Beyond The Ballroom

Barbican, London

2009
Manderley

John Jones Project Space, London

2008
No Letters, Nettie Horn

Exhibition in London

2008
Dick Jewell

Rachmaninoff's, London

2007
Reverie and Revolt

Art Centre, Miami

2006
Photo-London

Royal Academy of Arts, London

2005
Always A Little Further

Arsenale, Venice

2003
Dick Jewell, Hysteric Glamour

Shibuya Flag Shop, Tokyo

2003
Take a Bowery

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1990
Retrospective

Fusion Gallery, London

1986
Young Gifted & British

Kino Eiszeit, Berlin

1985
Identities

Centre National de la Photographie, Paris

1983
Summer Show

Serpentine Gallery, London

1985
Artware

Intermedia Congress, Hamburg

1982
Instant Fotographie

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1980
Dick Jewell

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

1979
Young British Photographers

Exhibition in New York

1979
Lives

Hayward Gallery, London

Films

2023
Kinky Gerlinky

Remastered 'Kinky Gerlinky' archival footage

2023
War & Peace

Piccadilly Circus, London

2003
Kinky Gerlinky

101 minute film edited from over 200 hours and shot on 21 nights to convey the experience of one full on night out at the club

1987
The Jazz Room

42 minute film shot on Super8 about the development of jazz dance at The Electric Ballroom, Camden. At the start of each night 'the film so far’ was projected above the dance floor, before continuing to shoot more material to incorporate into the film. This created an interaction between the dancers and the film that informed the development of the dance style

1986
Notting Hill Carnival

29 minute film shot on Super8 documenting Notting Hill Carnival between 1983-86

Dick Jewell News

03.11.24

Dick Jewell Archive of Leigh Bowery featured in AnOther Man

09.10.24

DoBeDo Artists Donate to State of Change Auction

05.01.24

Watch 'Kinky Gerlinky', a series of archival films by Dick Jewell

28.11.23

Dick Jewell commissioned for W magazine

17.07.23

Screening of 'WAR & PEACE' by Dick Jewell, 19th of July, Piccadilly Circus, London

27.05.23

Dick Jewell exhibits 'Formative Years' at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023. From the 13th of June to the 20th of August, London.