Born on 31st July 1970 in Nairobi, Kenya
Lives and works in Cornwall and London, UK

Education:

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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

2017          Nocturnes, The Studio, Andrew Place, 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

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

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

                  Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Camden Art Centre, London

                  Platform, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London

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

2023          Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Grundy Art Gallery, Liverpool 

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

                  Two by Two, Morrell House, London

                  Studio1.1 Members Show, Studio 1.1, London

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

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

                  What Remains, Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus

2021          Ingram Prize Finalist Show, Unit 1 Gallery / Workshop, London 

                  Queer as Folklore, Gallery 46, London

                  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

2018          Group Show, M.Goldstein, London
 

Funded Residencies:

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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:

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
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

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                 

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

2013          Portrait of of Michael Kuczynski for Pembroke College, Cambridge University, included in Pembroke Portraits by 

                  A.V.Grimstone first published in November 2013. 

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                  Images and words, Richardson Magazine 2 (garden issue)

                  Images and words, Richardson Magazine 7 (death issue)