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Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

EXHIBITION: James Dodds ‘The Work of Human Hand’

2 – 23 December

Messums is delighted to announce the forthcoming solo shows of long represented artist, James Dodds.
Dodds began his artistic career at Chelsea School of Art before going on to the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1984. In many ways however it began when he left school to work as a shipwright where he learnt the craft that would continue to influence him and his creative practice.
Though initially drawn to abstraction the tidal pull of the fascinating and at times surreal beauty of the built vessel bought him back to his true focus. Floating on plains of colour, away from the human hands that built them, these paintings, which still draw on an element of abstraction, are anatomical studies. To Dodds, these vessels are his models, his sitters that come into the studio to sit for a portrait.

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James Dodds
Wood to Water
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Until February 2021

 

 

 

Past Exhibitions

ONLINE EXHIBITION: James Dodds ‘The Work of Human Hands’

23 October – 29 November
Messums Wiltshire

‘Of all things, living or lifeless, upon this strange earth, there is but one which, having reached the mid-term of appointed human endurance on it, I still regard with

1983: “Icarus”, Minories, Colchester
1984, 1995, 1998, 2000:  Aldeburgh Festival
1985:  “Ship of Fools”, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1986:  “Fish, Flesh or Fowl”, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
1989, 1990, 1995, 1997:  Printworks, Colchester
1989, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2009, 2014, 2018:  Bircham Contemporary Arts, Norfolk
1990, 1994, 2005:  Chapel Galleries, Essex
1992:  Sue Rankin Gallery, London (2-man show with John Bratby RA)
2001:  North House Gallery, Manningtree, (2-man show with John Reay)
2001, 2007:  Art Exchange, Essex University Gallery
2001:  “Shipshape”, Firstsite at The Minories, Colchester
“Shipshape” tour:
                      2002:  Whitstable & Hearne Bay Museums & Art Galleries, Kent
                                    Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset
                                    Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
                                    Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham
2003:  National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth
2004:  National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
                      2005:  Time & Tide, Great Yarmouth
                                    Buckenham Gallery, Southwold
                                    Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool
                                    Thurso & Wick, Scotland
                                    Fermoy Gallery, King’s Lynn Arts Centre, King’s Lynn
2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018:  Messum’s, Cork Street London
2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020: Hayletts Gallery, Maldon
2008: “Salthouse 08: Seahouse, Lighthouse, Spirithouse”, Salthouse, Norfolk (mixed show)
2010, 2012, 2017:  Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine. USA
2013:  “Masterpieces, Art and East Anglia” Sainsbury Centre, UEA Norwich (mixed show)
2015:  “Wood to Water” Firstsite, Colchester
2019:  “Wood to Water” National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth