To make enquiries please email sarahneedham@artfromlodonmarkets.com
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As well as research and community projects which relate  to people and place, I have been creating a series of paintings and objects which explore the contrary themes of  memory, story, trade, transience and preservation and loss: Abstract pieces which provide evocative space.

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Artist’s Statement
My work is engaged with the interconnected  effects of trade, people, place, story and memory on identity.  Using hand mixed oils with raw pigments I create abstract images which resonate with forgotten stories, creating spaces to remember.  

Each collection or series is based on particular research int a specific place or time or globally a  pigment which determines the pigments used. Significant are the time scales and geography of the spread, and the social implications of that, so that for example indigo traded into Bristol in the 1770s was the product of slave plantations.  Cobalt used in ceramics in London in the 1500s was the result first of Sino-Dutch trade and then of  refugees from the Low countries to London at the time of the Inquisition who brought the skills with them.

I aim to create a conversation between the quiet symbolism that occurs in my work by using these carefully selected pigments and contemporary people and lives lived now.  In creating the work I am performing an act of remembrance  of the role of trade and mark making in creating the culture and society we live in.  The form of the work, creating space on a flat surface, is an invitation to the viewer to  fall in, to get a little lost and to remember. 

This Autumn/Winter Season

The Black Swan Open PV 18 October exhib19 Oct 24 Nov
Black Swan Arts, 2 Bridge Street, Frome BA11 1BB
Roys People Art Fair, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK November 1-4 2018
The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, New York USA November 7-11 2018
SFSA Painting, No Format Gallery/ Deptford Does Art,Deptford London December 2018

Recent Exhibitions/Fairs 
Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, Mixed Painting , Highgate High St, London 2018
The Other Art Fair London Victoria House London WC1 4-7 October 2018
Free Painters and Sculptors at the Muse Gallery October 2-7 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
The Curious Duke Gallery Summer Exhibition: White Cross Street, London EC1Y2018 
The Other Art Fair, Bristol, 26-29 July 2018
The London Open 2018 ,  ICI on digital display on screen at the Whitechapel Gallery June-September 2018
East Finchley Open Artist’s Houses ​ June30-July1  and July7- 8 2018
Roy’s People Art Fair, Barge House Oxo Tower Wharf, 12-15 April 2018
Ideal Home Show- London, Why Not Art stand  - digital display and catalogue 17.3-2.4.18
Trace Elements, Deptford Does Art Gallery, Deptford High St, London  8-28 Feb 2018
Private view 8.2.18 7-11
In conversation with Sarah Needham, Paul Anderson Morrow and Matthew Gould, hosted by Rosalind Davis 24.2.18 7pm
Tower 42, Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HQ .  Jan - April2018
SFSA Painting Open 17, No Format Gallery,  7-18 December 2017
Roy's People Art Fair, Islington, London14-17th September 2017  
Creekside Open 2017 selected by Jordan Baseman, APT Gallery  May 2017
Art Fair Malaga, Palacio de Ferias y Congresses de Malaga, Malaga  2017: Exhibited digitally.
Small Experiments in Colour, Queen's Wood Cafe, Highgate June 2017
The Talented Artist Fair, Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QR (Whitechapel tube)
​17/18/19 March 2017
The Thames: The ARTery of London, Curator:  Angus Pryor, St Katharine Docks  Dec2016
​Sugar And Spice,   Devon House, St Katherine Docks: Curator: Angus Pryor Aug- Sept2016 
Both Ends Of Madness, Sassoon Gallery Folkestone. Curator: Angus Prior 22July 2016
Nautical Perspectives,   St Katherine Docks, curated by Angus Pryor May  2016 
Whenever I feel Blue I Start Breathing,  Earl's Court Project Rooms,  June -July 2016
Open Studios: Open Art Spaces, Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea    June-July 2016
Open studios:Kensington and Fulham Open Art Spaces, Pocket Arts 2015
Place and Proximity, Austin Forum, Hammersmith, Pocket Arts 2015
Refuse Reuse, Kensington, Pocket Arts 2015
Microtopia, Kingsgate Workshops, West Hampstead 2014
Microtopia, Kingsgate Workshops, West Hampstead 2013

Competitions and Juried Shows
2018 Selected for The Black Swan Open
2018 Long listed for the Secret Art Prize
2018-Selected for round 2 Aesthetica Art Prize
2017 Creekside Open- Jordan Baseman selection at the APT Gallery


Community Art Projects and Interactive Events

Interactive Events / Community Arts

In conversation with Rosalind Davis: Rosalind Davis will be interviewing the three artists involved in Trace Elements in a walk around the gallery on Saturday the 24th Feb from 7pm, interrogating the three different approaches Sarah Needham, Paul Anderson Morrow and Matthew Gould take to their practice.  This is a free event, you are welcome to attend.

Willoughby Gallery Project: Initial research in process: this has involved oral history collections and will include repeated photographic walks  and a school based workshop culminating in an exhibition at the gallery 

Previous:

Both Ends of Madness Symposium, Thursday 21st July 6-8pm  Sassoon Gallery Folkestone
Sunday Lunch Confessions Open Art Spaces 2016
Place and Proximity Interactive Artists Event  Pocket Arts 2015,
Art For Fort’s Sake  Coordinated this community fund raising event with Fortismere School Art Department included parents, student and community exhibition,  and interactive events 2015
Story collecting 
2015 to2016: collecting food stories from people engaged with markets,
Splat Messy Play 2006-9 a messy play group for children under 5 and their parents / carers,   Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church
Art Week: Manorside JMI and N family work shops 2008

Previously:
Previous Art Work: 1989-2000   Exhibited in various  galleries and alternative spaces in London and included in a group show in the Barbican with VSO.  Followed by a period of child care.

Education:
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Graduated  with a 2.1in 1989 in Fine Art and Education from Hatfield Polytechnic.  Reflecting a long term interest in trade and international economic and cultural realtionships  graduated with MSc in Develoment Studies from South Bank University in 1994 and went on to  study Traditional Chinese Ink painting with Prof Ding of Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China 1995-7.

Representation:


Online Sales Platforms and Agencies
Saatchiart 
Luminaire Arts


Real World Galleries
Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, Highgate High Street, London, N6
Curious Duke Gallery, White Cross St, London EC1


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