James Needham Exhibition

The Old School Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by painter James Needham.

James Needham was born in Rugby, England in 1983 and currently lives and works in in Scotland after a long spell in Sydney, Australia. He studied at the Oxfordshire College of Art in the UK, graduating with a Diploma in General Art & Design in 2002 and received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Sydney’s National Art School in 2018.

Exhibitions

2025-New works- Solo exhibition- Beaux Arts Bath

2025- Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition – Mall Galleries, London, UK

2024- Classical Roots-group exhibition-Beaux Arts Bath

2023-Time to Leave- Solo exhibition – Project Gallery 90, Sydney

2022- A quiet year- Solo exhibition – Project Gallery 90, Sydney

2021- After Dark-group exhibition- M2 Gallery, Sydney

2021- Four Walls- Solo exhibition – Project Gallery 90, Sydney

2021- Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition – Mall Galleries, London, UK

2020- Salon des Refusés – S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney

2020- Domestic Bliss – Cook Street Collective, Flinders, Victoria

​2020- Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition – Mall Galleries, London, UK

2019- In plain sight- Group exhibition- Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

2019- These Days, Joint exhibition with Anh Nguyen – Michael Reid, Sydney

2019- GO WILD – Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland

2018- Realm – Farr side gallery, Sydney

2018- Wall Pop group exhibition – Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney

2017- BFA Graduate Exhibition – National Art School, Sydney

2015 – Immortality & Vulnerability – group show, Zhou B Art Centre, Chicago, USA

Awards and Prizes

2021 Finalist Lethbridge 20000 art prize

2020 Finalist Basil Sellers art prize

2020 Finalist Lethbridge 20000 art prize

2019 Semi Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

2019 Finalist SBS Portrait Prize

2018 Semi Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

2017 William Fletcher Foundation artist’s grant

2016 Semi Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

2016 Finalist Blacktown City Art Prize

Exhibition catalogue available at: www.theoldschoolgallery.co.uk

Admission is free.

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