Born on 31st July 1970 in Nairobi, Kenya

Lives and works in Cornwall and London, UK

 

Education:

 

1989 - 1992 University College London (BA in English Literature)

1988 - 1989 L’ecole Superieure D’Arts Visuels, Geneva (Foundation)

1992 - 1994 The Slade School of Art (MA in Fine Art)

2019 - 2020 Turps Banana Art School (Correspondence Course)

Solo Exhibitions: 

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2025 The Trilling Wire, Galerie PCP, Paris, in collaboration with Gertrude Art

2023 Tales of the City, Tales of the Sea, BWG Gallery, London

2021 The Garden Room, Nine Elms Gallery, ARC prints, London

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Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs:

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2026 Ancient Modern, Brooke Benington, London, in collaboration with Gertrude Art

2025 Mythic Manifest, Love Waxes Cold, London

2025 Earthly Bodies of Then, Now and When, BWG Gallery, London

2024 Pourquoi London, Gertrude Art, in collaboration with Canopy Collections

2024 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Camden Art Centre, London

2024 Platform, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London

2024 Slow Painting, Contemporary British Painting Group at Studio Kind, Barnstaple

2023 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Grundy Art Gallery, Liverpool 

2023 Tom of Finland Art and Culture Festival, Standard Hotel, London

2023 Two by Two, Morrell House, London

2023 Studio1.1 Members Show, Studio 1.1, London

2022 Studio1.1 Members Show. Studio1.1, London

2022 British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London (part of the Ingram Collection presentation)

2022 What Remains, Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus

2021 Ingram Prize Finalist Show, Unit 1 Gallery / Workshop, London
2021 Queer as Folklore, Gallery 46, London

2021 Burra and Friends, Rye Art Gallery, Rye

2020 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition (online due to pandemic)

2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy, London

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Funded Residencies:

2024 Clover Mill Artist Residency, Netherlands (two-week residency, invitation)

2023 Colstoun Artist Residency, Scotland (one month residency, invitation)

2022 Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus (one month residency, Erasmus funded)

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Prizes and Open Calls:

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2024 Floorr Magazine (issue 33 and virtual exhibition EXH13)

2023 Bloomberg New Contemporaries

2022 ArtMaze Magazine (issue 26); Waverton Art Prize - longlisted
2021 Ingram Prize 2021: Winner (Founder’s Choice Award) 
2020 Jackson Painting Prize 2020 - longlisted

2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

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Publications / Press:

 

2026          

James Dearlove: The Trilling Wire, Brave Projects Podcast, Season 3 launch episode, hosted by Victoria Comstock-Kershaw

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2025         

At The Still Point Of The Dance: James Dearlove's The Trilling Wire At GaleriePCP, Paris, Fetch London, by Elliot Joseph Burr

Fetch Faves: Gertrude's Queer Icons, Fetch London, by Daisy Culleton

2024

Don’t fear the gatekeeper, APOLLO Magazine, by Hettie Judah

Interview with James Dearlove, Floorr Magazine, by Richard Starbuck

“PLATFORM 2024: A MILLION CANDLES, ILLUMINATING QUEER LOVE AND LIFE”, Platform at London Art Fair 2024, London Art Fair, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley

New Contemporaries: cigarettes, scrotums and surreal beasts, The Telegraph, by Alastair Sooke

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2023          

Video interview between Painter James Dearlove and Art Historian & Director of the Ingram Collection Jo Baring, on the occasion of James Dearlove’s solo exhibition TALES OF THE CITY, TALES OF THE SEA at Brushes with Greatness, in London, in October 2023

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions To See in London in November, FAD magazine, by Tabish Khan

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2021          
The winners of the Ingram Prize 2021 Announced, FAD Magazine, By Mark Westall
The Ingram Prize, Hero Magazine
Ones To Watch: The Ingram Prize 2021: discover the four winning artists and the stories behind their work, HERO Magazine, by Alex James Taylor

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2018          
The artists showing at M. Goldstein’s upcoming group show talk us through their work, Hero Magazine, Introduction by Finn Blythe
The best things to watch, see and do this week in the UK, i-D, Matthew Whitehouse​