David Emmanuel Noel (born 12 December 1972) is a London-born painter, illustrator and designer with a career that includes working on art projects with local government bodies and charitable organizations such as the CAMBA, and the NSPCC. A Fellow of the

Royal Society of Arts The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), also known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. The RSA acronym is used m ...

, he has worked extensively with health professionals, architects, designers, and professional institutes, including the Royal Institute of British Architects, championing design quality and therapeutic benefits of art in public spaces. He was a director of the

Brixton Artists Collective The Brixton Artists Collective was a group of artists based in Brixton, London, who ran the Brixton Art Gallery (BAG) from 1983 to 1990. History 1983 The Brixton Artists Collective took a short lease on an empty carpet shop in Atlantic Road, ...

(BAC) in the early 1990s, established Artsway Ltd; a promotion company for visual and performance artists in the UK, and is a Co-Founder of PR and Arts Media company Occhi Arts & Entertainment, publisher of Occhi Magazine. He continues to work with other artists on collaborative projects.

Artwork and career

David Emmanuel Noel studied art at college before pursuing undergraduate and post graduate study in the social sciences. He maintained an interest in the arts, particularly painting, and became successful selling work and securing commissions to pay his rent. In the early 1990s he went on to be involved in the Brixton Art Gallery in south London, exhibiting in the gallery's first advertised all-black male artist exhibition entitled ''From Where I Stand'', and other public arts initiatives designed to create platforms for cross disciplinary collaboration. Working preferably in acrylics and oils, he has produced work of various styles which historically center on family, relationships, society and environmental issues.Official webpage
of composer Darryl Yokley.

Exhibitions and collaborations

He has exhibited widely and participated in several high-profile arts-related events including The African and African-Caribbean Design Diaspora (ACDD) – originally co-funded by the

Arts Council England Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three s ...

/ Lottery Fund and supported by the London Design Festival – and the Whole 9/Culver City Peace Project Arts initiative, launched in 2010 to raise awareness and funds for victims of war and environment-related disasters, particularly in Africa and Asia. Based in New York, he continues to exhibit, working with a variety of visual and performing artists such as RnB artist and Britain's Got Talent finalist Lifford Shillingford and composer Darryl Yokley, providing artwork for the album ''Pictures at an African Exhibition'', released via Truth Revolution Records in early 2018. The album’s title points to its clear inspiration, Modest Mussorgsky's famed ''

Pictures at an Exhibition ''Pictures at an Exhibition'', french: Tableaux d'une exposition, link=no is a suite (music), suite of ten piano pieces, plus a recurring, varied Promenade theme, composed by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The piece is Mussorgsky's ...

'' (1874), in which Mussorgsky composed music inspired by the artwork of his friend

Viktor Hartmann Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (Russian: Ви́ктор Алекса́ндрович Га́ртман; 5 May 1834, Saint Petersburg – 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow) was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsev ...

. David Emmanuel Noel produced artwork for the album cover and 13 original pieces to accompany each album track. These featured as part of a live performance and installation at the

Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Fr ...

and the

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potom ...

, Washington, D.C. Continuing the diasporic theme, the artist has collaborated with others exploring the subjects of race, culture, and identity. Working with other interdisciplinary artists, including Professor Cheryl D Miller, and Neo-African abstract expressionist painter,

Danny Simmons Daniel "Danny" Simmons Jr. is a Neo-African abstract expressionist painter, a published author, poet and philanthropist. He is a leader in the art world with his philanthropic ventures, artistic talents and creative mind and drive. Danny Simmo ...

, he has co-curated and exhibited at the Caribbean Fine Art Fair in Barbados and facilitated various platforms promoting visual arts, music, and cinema from the region.

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