About
Jack lives and works in Blandford Forum, Dorset. Born in Nigeria to Zambian and Scottish parents he draws upon a range of cultural and aesthetic influences in his work. He uses a variety of media including digitally manipulated images, photography, textiles, painting and drawing. At the heart of his practice is observation, responding to his experience of the world around him, to people and their stories. Each element in the background of his densely layered, mixed media work has meaning. Images, colours and patterns are sometimes literal, illustrating history and biography; sometimes they are more ambiguous or metaphorical. Jack weaves these elements together around the main subject, alluding to the complexity and fluidity of contemporary experience and identity.
Jack exhibits regularly including a solo show at the Russell Cotes Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth in 2022 and group shows in London. He has work in the National Portrait Gallery’s online collection and the Guildhall, City of London Corporation. He participated in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year in 2020, appeared on the BBC series Make it At Market in 2023. Most recently he took part in series four of BBC One’s Extraordinary Portraits with Bill Bailey in which he painted Rizwan Javed MBE. He has been shortlisted and longlisted for various prizes and exhibitions including: the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, the ING Discerning Eye, the RWA Open and the Jacksons Painting Prize. He also takes on commissions for private individuals and commercial clients include Netflix, Voltalia, Hall & Woodhouse, Talbot Heath School and Nosakhari.
Jack has over 25 years’ experience teaching and tutoring art with both children and adults. He works in schools, with art groups and one-to-one and has his own teaching space in which he runs lessons and workshops.
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Exhibitions
2024 - Dorset Arts Week, Hall & Woodhouse, Blandford Forum, Dorset
2024 - Spring Exhibition, group show, London Lighthouse Gallery, London City Island
2024 - Nosakhari Able-Graphy*, 56a Old Broad Street, London
2023 - Game Changers, group show, The Riverhouse, Richmond, London
2023 - Movements That Matter, group show BHM, CasilART, London
2023 - Art Unlimited Open, Bridport Art Centre, Bridport, Dorset
2023 - Six at Eight, group show, Gallery 8, Duke Street, St James's, London
2022 - New Histories and Old Stories, solo show, Russell Cotes Gallery, Bournemouth
2022 - 169th RWA Annual Open, RWA, Bristol
2022 - Fusion, group show, 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London
2022 - Dorset Arts Week, group show, Knighton House, Durweston, Dorset
2021 - Dorset Arts Week, group show, Bryanston School, Dorset
2018 - Artizan Summer Open, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon
2016 - Bryanston Today, group show, Mall Galleries, London
2014 - The Collective, group show, Valentine Gallery, Blandford Forum, Dorset
2012 - Nine, group show, Valentine Gallery, Blandford Forum, Dorset
2011 - Nine, group show, Guggleton Gallery, Stalbridge, Dorset​
2009 - The Presidents New Shirt, solo show, Artist Residence, Brighton
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Significant Commissions & Residencies
2024 - Nosakhari Able -Graphy*, commissioned piece to launch London Fashion Week
2024 - Dorset Visual Arts, 2 month residency at Hall & Woodhouse, Blandford Forum, Dorset
2023 - Portrait of a Top Boy, Netflix commission and exhibition, Sommerset House, London
2023 - Portrait of a Top Boy, National Portrait Gallery (online collection)
2023 - Voltalia and City of London Corporation, commissioned work on permanent display in the Guildhall, City of London
2023 - Portrait of the Head, Talbot Heath School, Dorset
Media & Residencies
2025 - Extraordinary Portraits, Series 4, Episode 2 BBC One (Chatterbox Media)
2024 - Dorset Visual Arts, 2-month residency at Hall & Woodhouse, Blandford Forum, Dorset
2023 - Make it At Market, Series 1, Episode 13, BBC One (Flabbergast TV)
2020 - Sky Portrait Artist of the Year, Series 7, Episode 7, Sky Arts, (Storyvault Films)
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