George Shaw (artist)

Shaw first attracted attention for painting the estate where he grew up in the 1970s, in the Tile Hill suburb of Coventry.^[1] Shaw studied art at Sheffield Polytechnic and received a BA in 1989.^[1] In 1998, he completed an MA in painting from London's Royal College of Art.^[3]

Shaw is noted for his highly detailed naturalistic approach and English suburban subject matter. His favoured medium is Humbrol enamel paints, which are more commonly used to paint Airfix models.^[1]

He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2011 for The Sly and Unseen Day.^[4]

Shaw contributed a short story "The Necromantic" to 13, a collection of short stories published by Soul Bay Press.^[5]

Shaw is based in Ilfracombe, Devon.^[1]

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• 2018 "George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field," Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.
• 2016 "My Back to Nature", National Gallery, London.
• 2011 "George Shaw: I woz ere," Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry.^[6]
• 2011 "The Sly and Unseen Day," BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.^[1][7]
• 2010 "Looking for Baz, Shaz, Gaz and Daz," VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland.
• 2009 "Woodsman," Wilkinson Gallery, London.
• 2008 "The End of the World," Galerie Hussenot, Paris.
• 2007 "Poets Day," Kunstverein Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany.
• 2007 "A Day for a small Poet," Clough Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis.
• 2006 "Poets Day," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva.
• 2005 "Ash Wednesday," Wilkinson Gallery, London.
• 2004 What I Did This Summer, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee.
• 2003 What I Did This Summer, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham^[8] and Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance.
• 2001 The New Life, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London.
• 2000 Morrissey vs Francis Bacon, Nunnery Gallery, London.
• 1999 Of Innocence: Scenes From the Passion, Antony Wilkinson Gallery, London.
• 1998 God Only Knows, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London.