At the Mandrake Hotel, London, the British-Jamaican artist Ramone K Anderson turns memory and faith into unsettled visions.
Ramone K Anderson: Moving on Swiftly
15th October, 2025 – 18th October, 2025
Bolanle Contemporary
Minor Attractions
Mandrake Hotel
20-21 Newman Street
London, GB W1T 1PG
At the Mandrake Hotel in London, Bolanle Contemporary is presenting In Memoriam, a solo exhibition by British-Jamaican painter Ramone “K” Anderson, as part of the third edition of Minor Attractions.
The exhibition, titled Moving on Swiftly, is an inquiry into memory, interiority and the imprint of Pentecostal Christianity. Anderson considers how faith has shaped his relationships and his sense of self. His paintings wrestle with fragments of personal history, translating them into images that remain unsettled and resistant to resolution.
Courtesy of the artist and Bolanle Contemporary
Working from a personal archive of photographs collected over the past twelve years, Anderson returns to portraits of friends and acquaintances who were once central to his life but are now distant or estranged. In his canvases, these figures appear blurred, layered and in flux — suspended between presence and disappearance. Memory, in his telling, is at once vivid and estranged, intimate yet remote.
Rather than allegory, Anderson’s figures embody lived experience — the psychic weight of being watched, judged, misread or forgotten. In many works, distinctions between foreground and background collapse, leaving viewers with an atmosphere of unease.
This deliberate withholding recalls Fred Moten’s idea of “refusal”: not silence, but a decision to resist full legibility. Anderson’s paintings hold something back, protecting memory and interior life from complete consumption. His practice also enters into dialogue with Aria Dean’s Notes on Blacceleration, situating Blackness not as an outsider to capital but as both its engine and potential undoing.
In Memoriam inhabits this tension. The work confronts the violence of visibility while opening a space for the reconstruction of identity and communal histories that might otherwise be lost.
Ramone K Anderson: Moving on Swiftly opens on the 15th of October, 2025 until the 18th of October, 2025, at The Mandrake Hotel
©2025 Bolanle Contemporary
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