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Born 1979, Grimsby

Awards

2023         Val Harris Prize

2023         joint winner, Critics' Choice Prize, NEAC

2015         Doreen McIntosh Prize

2014         runner-up, Visitors' Choice Award, Threadneedle Prize

2013         1st Prize winner, Winsor & Newton Oil Painters Award

2007         Janet Konstam Travel Award

2007         Artist Residency, Centro Verrocchio, Tuscany

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Solo Exhibitions

2022         Awakenings, Tregony Gallery, Cornwall, UK

2019         Altogether Elsewhere, Gallery 286, London, UK

2019         Lilford Gallery, Canterbury, UK

2017         IlluminationsLilford Gallery, Canterbury, UK

2017         An Artist in a State of Flux, Natsoulas Gallery, CA, USA

2015         Letting Light InLilford Gallery, Canterbury, UK

Bibliography

2023         Bland, James, How I Make It Work, Artists & Illustrators, May 2023, p.22

2020         Petit Lisy, Barbara, L'Enfance De L'Art (interview), Pratique Des Arts no.155, January 2021, pp.36-41

2020         Bland, James, Four-Colour Experiment, Artists & Illustrators, January 2021, p.57

2019         Seed, John, Disrupted Realism, Schiffer ISBN 0764358012

2019         Pill, Steve, James Bland (interview), Artists & Illustrators, August 2019

2018         Podlesnik, Joseph, Observational Drawing, Tempe Digital ISBN-13 9780986163753

2017         Morton, Walt etc., Poets Artists #86, The New Nude

2016         Bland, James, Imaginative Painting, Artists & Illustrators, December 2016, pp.76 - 78

2015         Vann, Philip, James Bland in the Ruth Borchard Collection, 01 January 2016

2014         Bland, James, Introduction to Villaggi, Galleria Elle Arte, Sicily by Ilaria Rosselli del Turco

2014         Eaton, Terri and Pill, Steve, Ones to Watch, Artists & Illustrators, April 2014

1993         Bland, James, Pilltris (Type-Ins), Amstrad Action #92

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 - 2023       New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London

2023                   Seattle Art Fair, Natsoulas Gallery

2020 - 2023       Assemble, Tregony Gallery, London (various)

2019 - 2023       various, Tregony Gallery, Cornwall

2022                   Contemporary British Portrait Painters, The Dept Store, Brixton, London

2022                   Contrast & Connection, Contemporary Six, Manchester

2021                   Now We Are Six, Islington Arts Factory, London

2021                   One: Single Object Still Life, 155a Gallery, London

2021                   Contemporary Landscape, 155a Gallery, London

2021                   Portraits in Isolation, the CBPP with the Net Gallery

2015 - 2020       International Figurative Biennale, John Natsoulas Gallery, California

2020                   Heatherley's Staff Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London

2019                   Disrupted Realism II, Stanek Gallery, USA

2019                   Art of Painting Conference, Natsoulas Gallery, California

2018                   Disrupted Realism, Stanek Gallery, USA

2017 - 2018       Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London

2017                   Honouring the Legacy of David Park, Santa Clara University, California

2017, 2014        Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London

2015                   ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, by invitation

2014, 2013        Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London

2014                   Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London

2013                   Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, King's Place, London

Academic Qualifications

2004     MA Fine Art, Canterbury Christchurch University

2002     BA (Hons) 1st Class in Fine Art, Canterbury Christchurch University

1998     Diploma in Fine Art, Grimsby College

​Selected Teaching

2022 - 2023       Penn Studio School of Art, USA

2014 - 2023       Art Academy, London, UK

2020 - 2022       Winslow Arts Center, USA

2016                   Grande Borie, France

2014 - 2015       Arts in Provence, France

2010 - 2014       Kent Adult Education, UK

2008 - 2009       Centre for Flexible Learning, University of Kent, UK

2007                   Canterbury Christchurch University, UK

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