hand-produced a series of handmade artists' books. A short film, "Shaped by the Sea", about Dodds, by Emily Harris for Classic Yacht TV was released in May 2014. Played Anthony's father in Joanna Hogg's Sundance Grand Jury winning Film The Souvenir & The Souvenir II Awards 1999 Awarded GMC Trust Best in Show ‘Aldeburgh Beach’ 2007 Honorary doctorate from University of Essex. 2012 Ian Collins biography “James Dodds Tide Lines" wins EDP Jarrolds East Anglian Art & Photography Book Award 2016 John Nash medal from Colchester Art Society 2021 Ian Collins biography “James Dodds The Blue Boat” Exhibitions Selected solo exhibitions 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, Bircham Contemporary Arts, Norfolk 1990/1994/1995, Chappel Galleries, Essex 1992, Sue Rankin Gallery, London Two man show with John Bratby RA 2001, North House Gallery, Manningtree with John Reay "Blue Boat". University of Essex Gallery 2004/ 2006/ 2007/ 2009/ 2011/ 2013 /2015/ 2016/ 2017/ 2018 /2020 Messum's. Cork Street. London 2010/ 2012/ 2017Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine. USA 2015-2016 Wood to Water, Firstsite,Colchester 2019-2020 Wood to Water, National Maritime Museum Cornwall 2021 The Blue Boat, David Messum Fine Art,London Selected group exhibitions 1991/1998/1999/2000, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1993, Wetzlar, Germany 1994, John Callahan Gallery, Boston, United States 1995, "4 from Wivenhoe". Courcoux & Courcoux, Hampshire "Ultra Marine", Liverpool "Forth, Tyne, Dogger", Brewery Arts, Cirencester 1996, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University "The Sea", Black Swan Arts, Frome 1997, City Arts Gallery. Leeds Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia Mall Gallery, London 1999, Eastern Open. King's Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk Mystic Seaport. USA: New York Ship Terminal, United States 2000, The Hunting Art Prizes. London 2000, "Alphabet Soup". Printworks, Sudbury, Suffolk 2001/2003,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011, Messum's Cork Street. London 2013, "Masterpieces,Art and East Anglia" Sainsbury Centre, Norwich. Reviews "Looking at the paintings of James Dodds for the first time one is struck by the literalness of the work, the sheer specificity of plank on frame built outward by the practiced hand of a man whose obsession with the form and structure of boats had taken him out of school at fifteen and into a shipyard apprenticeship. Slowly, however, the force of his artistry begins to gather beyond this initial impression. In a striking and mysterious piece of visual alchemy, what once seemed specific now glides toward the abstract. Parts, once distinct,