About Sarah Needham
Sarah is taking part in the Other Art Fair London and New York this Autumn, launching her new “Cobalt Collection: From the Vauxhall Potters to the British Museum” a collection of works using cobalt and earth based pigments. For more details see the collection and check out the information on her website Cobalt Collection page http://www.sarahneedhamartist.co.uk/cobalt-collection-from-the-vauxhall-potters-to-the-british-museum.html.
As well as art training Sarah has a Masters Degree in Development Studies. Sarah has spent her time developing a visual language to ask existential questions about how we can live now and how that relates to our past. To the stories both told and untold. Of the relationship between us as humanity that cross cultural and geographic boundaries while at the same time often making work that is geographically specific.
She is currently showing at Highgate Contemporary Art in their mixed painting show and the Free Painters and Sculptors exhibition in the Muse Gallery on Portobello Road, London. And later this month will be part of the Black Swan Arts open in Frome Somerset selected by Johnny Messum, Messums Wiltshire, Michael Eaves, Glastonbury Festival, Debbie Hillyer, Hauser and Wirth, and Steve Burden and Sue Conrad artists.
Sarah Needham was delighted to be shown in the Jordan Baseman selection for theCreekside Open 17 at the APT Gallery in Deptford London an Arts Council funded gallery.
This year her work has been taken on by the Why Not Art Art Advisory and Luminaire Art Agency showing in their Belgravia exhibition space. She also shows through Artful.
Sarah was born in Lincolnshire, grew up in a small town on the edge of the New Forest and lives in London with her family. She has studied Fine Art, Education, Developments Studies and traditional ink wash painting in the UK and China.
Sarah makes paintings from pigments hand grinding into oil painting media. She researches the pigments not only for their beauty but also for their role in the history of trade and mark making. The process of making the work and use of the pigments is an act of remembrance of the stories told, and untold of the impact of trade and mark making on humanity. The final product is abstract, an attempt to use colour tone and suggestive form to create spaces for the viewer to fall into, to get a little lost and to remember.
Exhibitions:
2018
The Other Art Fair, London October 2018
The Other Art Fair, New York November 2018
Roy’s People Art Fair London November 2018
The Free Painters and Sculptors Exhibition at the Muse Gallery, Portobello Road London 2-7 October 2018
Mixed Painting, Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, ongoing
Current Projects:
Lincolnshire Project including oral history collection, research of Corby Glen locality and making of work culminating in exhibition in the Wiloughby gallery in 2019
The Other Art Fair,Bristol July
The London Open 2018 , ICI will be on digital display on screen at the Whitechapel Gallery June-September 2018
The Summer Show, Curious Duke Gallery London EC1
East Finchley Open Art Houses July
Roy’s People Art Fair
Spring edition
Jan- March
Trace Elements, Deptford Does Art Gallery , 28 Deptford High St, London SE8 . Artists in conversation with event hosted by Rosalind Davis Feb 24 7pm 2018
Jan-March exhibiting “Fulham Lethe" at Tower 42, City of London EC2
Trace Elements, downstairs Gallery Deptford does Art, 28 Deptford High St London SE8 8-28 feb 2018
2017
SFSA Painting Open, No Format Gallery, Deptford, London Dec 2017
Tower 42, Old Broad St, City of London Oct-Dec
Roy's People Art Fair 14-1717September Islington London
Small Experiments in Colour, Highgate,
Art Fair Malaga ,Spain 2017
Talented Art Fair Truman Brewery London 2017
Creekside Open, Jordan Baseman Selection APT Gallery, 2017
2016
The Thames: The ARTery of London, St Katherine Docks selected by Angus Pryor
Sugar and Spice, St Katharine Docks selected by Angus Pryor
Both Ends of Madness, Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone, Selected by Angus Pryor
Nautical Perspectives, St Katharine Docks
Kensington Fulham and Chelsea Open Art Spaces,
Whenever I Feel Blue I start Breathing, Open Art Spaces group show
2015
Place and Proximity, Austin Forum, Hammersmith,
Kensington and Fulham Open Art Spaces,
Refuse Reuse, Kensington, Pocket Arts
Microtopia, Kingsgate Workshops, West Hampstead
2014
Microtopia, Kingsgate Workshops, West Hampstead, London
