Dick Jewell graduated from the Royal College of Art (Printmaking MA) in
1978 and has gone on to develop an extraordinary career as an
artist/printmaker and filmmaker. His studio practice utilises film,
video, and photography and also explores photographic and digital
anthologies via photomontage and animation. His working practice is
diverse, he has published two books and his films have screened
extensively within both film festivals and art galleries, while he
still continues to work commercially as a cameraman within both the
fashion and music industries. Dick has special interest and
responsibility for the digital, photographic and moving-image media.
Dick Jewell exhibited at Waddington Galleries and New Contemporaries while still at the RCA. In 1979 he published Found Photos and participated in Young British Photographers, New York, and Lives,
Hayward Gallery, London. His first solo exhibition at Chapter Arts
Centre Cardiff in 1980 was followed by group shows including the
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the ‘Summer Show’ at the Serpentine
Gallery, London.
In the 1980s he ran a record label, and designed and released albums
for artists including Gregory Isaacs and Prince Far I. He has also
directed music promos for artists including Neneh Cherry and Massive
Attack. Since then he has directed and made over 50 documentary films
and videos, primarily on the subjects of artists, dance and club
culture.
These films of the 1980s and early ’90s have shown extensively not
only at film festivals around the world but also more recently at art
galleries including 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 Froebel
Institute; Newport Museum; Whitworth Art Gallery; Leeds Art Gallery;
Camden Libraries; Dudley Museum.
In the 1990s Dick Jewell’s documentaries continued with subjects as
diverse as The Bushmen of the Kalahari and Capouera in NE Brazil, and
the publication of Hysteric Glamour, 2001. Over the last 10
years, with the continued development of digital technology, Dick has
been able to concentrate on his personal work within his studio
practice is currently represented by Rachmaninoffs, London.