Recent Education
Royal College Of Art, London, MA Painting 2024-5
Recent Exhibitions
2025
MA Painting Graduate Show, Painting Building, Royal College of Art, June
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Art
Ancestral Utopias, Hangar Space Royal College of Art, April
Atemkristall, Blyth Arts, Imperial College, April
2024
Autumn Winter Show, Silson Contemporary, Harrogate Sept-Jan
The Earth Beneath Her Feet, solo, Broadworks by Hive, Broad Street London, EC1 August
Open Studios June/July
Matter of Threads, Paint Spaces Gallery, 167 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead NW6 3AU April
The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA April
2023
Manchester Art Fair, 17-19 November
Through the Looking Glass, The Mall Galleries, Aug 28-3Sept
Open Studios: 1-2 July
The Other Art Fair Chicago April2023
The Other Art Fair, London March 23
Silson Contemporary Autumn/Winter Show end Jan 2021
Residency at the Pasture Project Space, Suffolk Feb 23
Thomas Spencer Fine Art, Bath by invitation only, and new catalogue Summer-Autumn
2022
Connect Art Fair with Thomas Spencer Fine Art at the Mall Galleries London, 23-27 March
Colour in Abstraction, The Art Buyer Gallery, Thames Ditton, 2022
Silson Contemporary Autumn /Winter Show, Harrogate, Yorkshire
The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair with Thomas Spencer Fine Art , London January 25-30
2021
Winter Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia: Thomas Spencer Fine Art 21
Exhibition of work at Vintners Place, curated by Eleni Polycarpou 2021
Letters From a Strange Year Blue exhibition, online
The Other Art Fair, London October 21
Bath Decorative Antiques Fair: Thomas Spencer Fine Art 21
The Decorative Arts and Antiques Fair Thomas Spencer Fine Art,Lond
Summer Show at Silson Contemporary, Harrogate 2021
The Other Side at Irving Contemporary,, Oxford, 2021
The Affordable Art Fair with the Kahn Gallery, Battersea, 2021
Letters From a Strange Year Pop up 1,London E2, 26-29 April. 2021
1 Kings Hill curated by June Frickleton, Feb-May 22
2020
Autumn Show, Silson Contemporary Art Gallery, Harrogate, 2021
Water | Land, Irving Contemporary Art, Oxford, Jan21
Artist Walks, 4a Sutton Road, N10 1HE, 14Nov-14Dec20, community Art Project responding to the lockdown exhibiting in domestic windows across North London
Summer Show Gallery Artists. Silson Contemporary Art Gallery Summer show August-September 202
Unframed Highgate Contemporary Unframed online show May 2020
V-Art.Show Online open studios April/May /June editions 2020
Art on a Postcard with Highgate Contemporary Art in aid of Feed NHS sold out April 2020
The Other Art Fair Online Studios, on Saatchi online April to October2020
Beyond Other Horizons: Contemporary paintings made in Britain and Romania, Iasi Palace of Culture, Iasi Romania
Mid winter show,., Silson Contemporary Art Gallery, Harrogate, 2020
2019
Makers and Craftsmen Project, curated interior by Bergman and Mar, Chiswick to winter 20
Kahn Gallery at the Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg 14-17 November 2019
Luminaire Arts Gallery, Beyond Abstracts, 7 Denbigh St London SW1V 2HF Nov-Dec 2019
Competitions and Juried Shows
2025Royal Academy summer Exhibition
2023Through A Looking Glasss, Swanfall, Mall Galleries
2019 Makers and Craftsmen, Curated by Bergman and Mar,
2018 The Black Swan Open selected by Johnny Messum, of Messums Wiltshire, Michael Eaves of Glastonbury Festival, Steve Burden Artist, Debbie Hilliyard of Hauser and Wirth, Sue Conrad Artist
2018 Long listed for the Secret Art Prize selected by gallerist Eleni Duke
2017 Creekside Open- selected by Jordan Baseman senior tutor at The Royal college of Art
Work held in UK, Switzerland, France, Australia, USA, the Middle East and Japan
Publications
The London Magazine, Cover Image June/July 2024
John Paul Pryor, Secrets and Lies: The Artist Sarah Needham on abstracting hidden histories into profound emotional encounters, Culture Collective Journal, 31.1.23 on the housecollective.com platform 2023
A Geography of Colour podcast interview with Ruth Philo, hosted on ContemporaryBritishPainting.com available via https//soundcloud.com/ruth-277228686/sarah-needham. 2023
Beyond Other Horizons,2020 Iasi Palace of Culture exhibition catalogue also available online www.academia.edu/4662045/Beyond_Other_Horizons
Letters From a Strange Year, Paul Anderson Morrow and Sarah Needham Artist Project 2020
Artist Talks/Interactive Events / Community Arts
Central St Martins School of Art, Artist talk and tutorials 2025
Ancestral Utopias pigment and medium making workshop: Making pigments and paint from river debris 2025
Pigment walk and makingat Toast Hampstead 2024
Earth pigment processing as part of The Earth Beneath Her Feet, Broadworks by Hive 2024
The Earth Beneath Her Feet, Artist Talk, Oxford 2023
Residency Talk Pasture Project Space Residency Autumn 2023
Letters From a Strange Year 2021: Symposium and interactive online event 2020
Willoughby Gallery Project Oral history collecting, local research, children’s workshop, interactive gallery 2019
Live PaintingTower 42 London, 2018
In conversation with Rosalind Davis: Rosalind Davis interview at Trace Elements 2017
Both Ends of Madness Symposium, Artist Talk Sassoon Gallery Folkestone 2016
Previous Education
Masters Degree in Development Studies from South Bank University1994
Undergrad Fine Art and Education Hatfield Polytechnic 1989,
Traditional Chinese Southern School ink painting under Prof Ding in Jiangxi China 2015-7
Royal College Of Art, London, MA Painting 2024-5
Recent Exhibitions
2025
MA Painting Graduate Show, Painting Building, Royal College of Art, June
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Art
Ancestral Utopias, Hangar Space Royal College of Art, April
Atemkristall, Blyth Arts, Imperial College, April
2024
Autumn Winter Show, Silson Contemporary, Harrogate Sept-Jan
The Earth Beneath Her Feet, solo, Broadworks by Hive, Broad Street London, EC1 August
Open Studios June/July
Matter of Threads, Paint Spaces Gallery, 167 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead NW6 3AU April
The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA April
2023
Manchester Art Fair, 17-19 November
Through the Looking Glass, The Mall Galleries, Aug 28-3Sept
Open Studios: 1-2 July
The Other Art Fair Chicago April2023
The Other Art Fair, London March 23
Silson Contemporary Autumn/Winter Show end Jan 2021
Residency at the Pasture Project Space, Suffolk Feb 23
Thomas Spencer Fine Art, Bath by invitation only, and new catalogue Summer-Autumn
2022
Connect Art Fair with Thomas Spencer Fine Art at the Mall Galleries London, 23-27 March
Colour in Abstraction, The Art Buyer Gallery, Thames Ditton, 2022
Silson Contemporary Autumn /Winter Show, Harrogate, Yorkshire
The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair with Thomas Spencer Fine Art , London January 25-30
2021
Winter Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia: Thomas Spencer Fine Art 21
Exhibition of work at Vintners Place, curated by Eleni Polycarpou 2021
Letters From a Strange Year Blue exhibition, online
The Other Art Fair, London October 21
Bath Decorative Antiques Fair: Thomas Spencer Fine Art 21
The Decorative Arts and Antiques Fair Thomas Spencer Fine Art,Lond
Summer Show at Silson Contemporary, Harrogate 2021
The Other Side at Irving Contemporary,, Oxford, 2021
The Affordable Art Fair with the Kahn Gallery, Battersea, 2021
Letters From a Strange Year Pop up 1,London E2, 26-29 April. 2021
1 Kings Hill curated by June Frickleton, Feb-May 22
2020
Autumn Show, Silson Contemporary Art Gallery, Harrogate, 2021
Water | Land, Irving Contemporary Art, Oxford, Jan21
Artist Walks, 4a Sutton Road, N10 1HE, 14Nov-14Dec20, community Art Project responding to the lockdown exhibiting in domestic windows across North London
Summer Show Gallery Artists. Silson Contemporary Art Gallery Summer show August-September 202
Unframed Highgate Contemporary Unframed online show May 2020
V-Art.Show Online open studios April/May /June editions 2020
Art on a Postcard with Highgate Contemporary Art in aid of Feed NHS sold out April 2020
The Other Art Fair Online Studios, on Saatchi online April to October2020
Beyond Other Horizons: Contemporary paintings made in Britain and Romania, Iasi Palace of Culture, Iasi Romania
Mid winter show,., Silson Contemporary Art Gallery, Harrogate, 2020
2019
Makers and Craftsmen Project, curated interior by Bergman and Mar, Chiswick to winter 20
Kahn Gallery at the Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg 14-17 November 2019
Luminaire Arts Gallery, Beyond Abstracts, 7 Denbigh St London SW1V 2HF Nov-Dec 2019
Competitions and Juried Shows
2025Royal Academy summer Exhibition
2023Through A Looking Glasss, Swanfall, Mall Galleries
2019 Makers and Craftsmen, Curated by Bergman and Mar,
2018 The Black Swan Open selected by Johnny Messum, of Messums Wiltshire, Michael Eaves of Glastonbury Festival, Steve Burden Artist, Debbie Hilliyard of Hauser and Wirth, Sue Conrad Artist
2018 Long listed for the Secret Art Prize selected by gallerist Eleni Duke
2017 Creekside Open- selected by Jordan Baseman senior tutor at The Royal college of Art
Work held in UK, Switzerland, France, Australia, USA, the Middle East and Japan
Publications
The London Magazine, Cover Image June/July 2024
John Paul Pryor, Secrets and Lies: The Artist Sarah Needham on abstracting hidden histories into profound emotional encounters, Culture Collective Journal, 31.1.23 on the housecollective.com platform 2023
A Geography of Colour podcast interview with Ruth Philo, hosted on ContemporaryBritishPainting.com available via https//soundcloud.com/ruth-277228686/sarah-needham. 2023
Beyond Other Horizons,2020 Iasi Palace of Culture exhibition catalogue also available online www.academia.edu/4662045/Beyond_Other_Horizons
Letters From a Strange Year, Paul Anderson Morrow and Sarah Needham Artist Project 2020
Artist Talks/Interactive Events / Community Arts
Central St Martins School of Art, Artist talk and tutorials 2025
Ancestral Utopias pigment and medium making workshop: Making pigments and paint from river debris 2025
Pigment walk and makingat Toast Hampstead 2024
Earth pigment processing as part of The Earth Beneath Her Feet, Broadworks by Hive 2024
The Earth Beneath Her Feet, Artist Talk, Oxford 2023
Residency Talk Pasture Project Space Residency Autumn 2023
Letters From a Strange Year 2021: Symposium and interactive online event 2020
Willoughby Gallery Project Oral history collecting, local research, children’s workshop, interactive gallery 2019
Live PaintingTower 42 London, 2018
In conversation with Rosalind Davis: Rosalind Davis interview at Trace Elements 2017
Both Ends of Madness Symposium, Artist Talk Sassoon Gallery Folkestone 2016
Previous Education
Masters Degree in Development Studies from South Bank University1994
Undergrad Fine Art and Education Hatfield Polytechnic 1989,
Traditional Chinese Southern School ink painting under Prof Ding in Jiangxi China 2015-7
