Born 1979, Grimsby
Work in Public Collections
The Ruth Borchard Collection of Self-Portraits
Awards
2023 Val Harris Prize
New English Art Club annual exhibition
2023 joint winner, Critics' Choice Prize
New English Art Club annual exhibition
New English Art Club annual exhibition
2013 shortlisted for Ruth Borchard Prize
King's Place, London
2013 1st Prize winner, Winsor & Newton Oil Painters Award
Royal Instititute of Oil Painters annual exhibition
2007 Janet Konstam Travel Award
2007 Artist Residency, Centro Verrocchio, Tuscany
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Storytelling, Tregony Contemporary, UK (forthcoming)
2023 New Light, Lilford Gallery, Canterbury, UK
2022 Awakenings, Tregony Gallery, Cornwall, UK
2019 Altogether Elsewhere, Gallery 286, London, UK
2019 Lilford Gallery, Canterbury, UK
2017 Illuminations, Lilford Gallery, Canterbury, UK
2017 An Artist in a State of Flux, Natsoulas Gallery, CA, USA
2015 Letting Light In, Lilford 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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2013 - 2023 New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
2023 Seattle Art Fair etc., Natsoulas Gallery
2019 - 2023 Assemble etc., Tregony Gallery, London and 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 etc., 155a Gallery, London
2021 Portraits in Isolation, the CBPP with the Net Gallery
2015 - 2020 International Figurative Biennale etc., John Natsoulas Gallery, California
2020 Heatherley's Staff Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2019, 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, invited artist
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
2023 Casa Rosa, Spain
2023 - Hampshire Art Studio, UK
2022 - Art East Anglia, UK
2022 - 2023 Penn Studio School of Art, USA
2019 Heatherley's School of Art, London
2014 - 2024 The Art Academy, London
2010 - 2014 Kent Adult Education, UK
2008 - 2009 Centre for Flexible Learning, University of Kent, UK
2007 Canterbury Christchurch University, UK