Past
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Cameron Platter
Everyday Apocalypse 27 Mar - 20 Apr 2013 'Add Hope' - KFC slogan Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present Cameron Platter's 'Everyday Apocalypse', the artist's first exhibition in the UK. These drawings form part of an ongoing,... Read more -
Jong Afrikaner
Roelof Petrus Van Wyk 5 - 16 Mar 2013 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo show of photography by Roelof Petrus van Wyk. The exhibition continues on themes first seen in Figures & Fictions', a 2011... Read more -
Quitte Le Pouvoir: New Paintings By Aboudia
22 Jan - 16 Feb 2013 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a new series of paintings by Ivorian artist Aboudia, in his second solo exhibition at the gallery. The riots that followed the disputed... Read more -
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Waiting For The Seventh Day That Will Bring Us Together 22 Nov - 15 Dec 2012 Private view: 21 November, 6 - 8 pm Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Joël Andrianomearisoa. Waiting for the Seventh Day That... Read more
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David Chancellor
Hunters 31 Oct - 10 Nov 2012 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibtion of photography by David Chancellor. Using medium format film, Chancellor documents the tourist trophy hunting industry in Africa today. Work... Read more -
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou
Demoiselles de Porto-Novo 20 Sep - 20 Oct 2012 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. The Demoiselles series delves deeper into his on-going portraiture project entitled 'Citizens of... Read more -
Bandoma
New Work From Kinshasa 11 Aug - 8 Sep 2012 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a new series of works on paper by Congolese artist Bandoma, in his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Bandoma describes his work... Read more -
Vincent Michea
Before the Bigger Splash 28 Jun - 28 Jul 2012 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Vincent Michea. Michea creates narrative, often hyperrealist paintings inspired by the surrounds of his hometown Dakar,... Read more
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Tumult Noir
New Paintings by Ransome Stanley 17 May - 16 Jun 2012 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ransome Stanley. Ransome draws on images from bourgeois culture of the nineteenth century, Western images of... Read more -
Kura Shomali
Cassius Clay Ali Boom Boom Ye 5 Apr - 6 May 2012 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Kura Shomali. Shomali describes his work as a way of 'digesting' the megalopolis of Kinshasa, Democratic... Read more -
Goncalo Mabunda
New Work 16 Feb - 17 Mar 2012 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Gonçalo Mabunda. Mabunda is interested in the collective memory of his country, Mozambique, which has only... Read more -
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou
Egungun Project 17 Nov - 17 Dec 2011 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a new series of photographs by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, in his second solo exhibition with the gallery. Agbodjelou (b. 1965) is one of... Read more
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Les Fantomes
Aboudia | Afedzi Hughes | Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou | Bandoma | Paa Joe | Hamidou Maiga 22 Sep - 29 Oct 2011 Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou shoots traditional vodou rituals, rites, ceremonies, and festivals local to Benin, West Africa. His vibrant daylight images present masquerade as a complex, mysterious and profound tradition in... Read more -
The Battle For Abidjan
Paintings By Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba 22 Jun - 30 Jul 2011 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a new series of paintings by the Ivorian artist Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, in his first solo exhibition at the gallery. The riots that... Read more -
Kings Of Kumasi: New Painting From The Asante Capital
Almighty God | Isaac Otchere Azey | Akwesi Addai 5 May - 11 Jun 2011 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of painting by three Ghanaian artists living and working in Kumasi. Kumasi, capital of the Asante region and Ghana's second... Read more -
Hamidou Maiga
Talking Timbuktu 23 Mar - 30 Apr 2011 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased announce a solo selling exhibition of studio photography by Hamidou Maiga. Initially trained in Timbuktu as a mason, Maiga's career as a photographer was launched... Read more
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Vodou | Magic | Juju
Contemporary Art From West Africa 26 Jan - 12 Mar 2011 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture from West Africa. Cyprien Tokoudagba was born in 1939 in Abomey, Benin. His practice is... Read more -
Paa Joe
Taking It With You 25 Nov 2010 - 15 Jan 2011 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to announce a solo selling exhibition of sculpted coffins by the Ghanaian artist Paa Joe. The four works in the show are all iconic symbols... Read more -
Bongo In The Congo
Emerging Art From Kinshasa 7 Oct - 6 Nov 2010 My painting is concerned with people's lives... I want to change our mentality that keeps us isolated from the world. I appeal to people's consciences. Artists must make people think.... Read more -
From Dahomey To Benin
Studio Photography By Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou 10 Sep - 3 Oct 2010 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photography by Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou. Leonce's subjects are the people of Porto-Novo, Benin (formerly Republic of Dahomey). His daylight... Read more
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Seydou Keïta
Beautiful Like That 10 Jun - 11 Jul 2010 ‘In Bamako we say I ka nyé tan’ which in English means “you look well”, but in fact it means “you look beautiful like that”. Art is beauty.’ - Seydou... Read more -
Strong Medicine
New Vodou Art From Haiti 29 Apr - 30 May 2010 ‘Haiti, it is said, is a place to discover how much can be done with little. Tires are turned into shoes, tin cans into trombones, mud and thatch into lovely,... Read more -
Stephen Dupont
Raskols And Sing-Sing 26 Mar - 25 Apr 2010 'This body of work will counter stereotypical myths of Papua New Guinea with honest representations of the people, their culture and identity. It is an attempt to relate the experience... Read more -
Somewhere Else
Manoj Joshi, Devi & Kajal Kanti Dey 10 Feb - 21 Mar 2010 Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a group show of studio photography from India and studio background paintings from Bangladesh. Manoj Joshi is a third generation studio photographer from... Read more