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.  

The indigo series use fair traded indigo as the pigment of choice. Both because of its amazing and slightly unpredictable capacity for colour variations and interaction with oil painting media and because of the  history of indigo in international trade which reaches back to classical times.

The Lost girl series are a meditation on the role of memory, lost story and identity within the context of contemporary society and use traditional media to link back to the history of art, mark-making and what it means to be human.

My current work is an attempt at creating a conversation between the quiet symbolism that occurs in my work by using these carefully selected pigments, so that 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.  Therefore creating conversations between the past and current lived experience. 

​Coming up

The Curious Duke Gallery Summer Exhibition: White Cross Street, London EC1Y July-August, 2018 “The Wives of Bath” piece selected for this mixed show 

The Other Art Fair, Bristol, 26-29 July 2018

The London Open 2018 ,  ICI will be 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, London November 1-4th



Current
Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, Mixed Painting , Highgate High St, London


Recent Exhibitions/Fairs 

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 . One large painting in the ground floor lobby and a cabinet of Small and Tiny Experiments in colour and two 3D pieces on the first floor, through artful.com.  October -Dec 2017 and single painting Jan - April2018
SFSA Painting Open 17, No Format Gallery, Arch 29, Rolt St, Deptford, London, UK SE8 5JB Private view 7 December 7-18 December
Roy's People Art Fair, Islington, London14-17th September 2017  for details click link below  www.royspeopleartfair.com/artists.php?controller=pjLoad&action=pjActionView&id=72
For gorgeous photographs of the stand taken by Dani Tagen please click on this link
 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ekpjcuw825n9w8e/SarahNeedham_show-001.jpg?dl=0
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 Long listed for the Secret Art Prize, and let’s see what happens next!
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:

Why Not Art from December 2017
Luminaire Arts ​from March 2018

Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery:  Work from the Darkness and Light series currently on show in the gallery with more available through the website.


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