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Adam Bell

Adam Bell is an Assistant Keeper at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, based at South Shields Museum & Art Gallery. His current research interests include members of the Jarrow Group, particularly Ken Watts and Vincent Rea; Dadaism with particular reference to the work of Kurt Schwitters and his followers; and Pop art, especially that of Richard Hamilton and the students taught and inspired by him in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Adam recently curated the exhibition The Art of Vince Rea: A sense of ourselves in time and history, and is currently working on a retrospective of the industrial and landscape painter and printmaker Richard Hobson (1945-2004) to open in 2025.

A social and cultural historian by training, Adam read History at the University of Cambridge. He was a Trustee of the Social History Curators Group for ten years.

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