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Tim Shaw RA (b.1964)
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
We have known Tim Shaw and his art for some twenty-five years – since he was fresh out of
art school and sculpting the baroque ‘Middle World’ in a damp and drafty barn in Cornwall.
There was no question, even then, that he would become, as Mark Hudson wrote, ‘one of the
great storytellers of British art.’ Hudson rightly extols ‘the tension between tradition and
nowness, between solidity and nightmarish breakdown,’ for not only is Shaw one of our
great storytellers, he is one of our great sculptors. His classical prowess is reminiscent of
Rodin – as evidenced by his beautifully modelled bronzes – but his scope is fundamentally
other: it is primal, risky and political.
As a child in Northern Ireland, Shaw was dining with his mum when the pub blew up, and
while he revisits this memory directly in ‘Mother The Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous’, it is
latent in his attention to war. ‘Casting a Dark Democracy’ – based on the iconic Abu Ghraib
prisoner, sculpted of heavy metal, barbed wire, Polythene and electrical cable, and
positioned above a reflecting pool of oil – was praised as ‘the most politically charged yet
poetically resonant new work on show in London’. For years, we have watched as Shaw has
extended his materials from clay to fabric to plastic and oil, and now it is we who are being
watched by his ‘Breakdown Clown’ – an A.I. robot, 'sculpted in residency at the Käte
Hamburger Kolleg: Law is Culture. The renowned sculptor, Michael Sandle RA has declared
it 'a work of towering genius.’
Shaw is a Royal Academician, Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors, Fellow of
Falmouth University, recipient of The Kenneth Armitage Award, the Royal Academy
Sculpture Award 2015, and the Threadneedle Prize 2008. Public commissions include The
Rites of Dionysos for The Eden Project, The Minotaur for The Royal Opera House and The
Drummer for Lemon Quay, Truro.
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EDUCATION
1985 – 89 – Falmouth College of Art, BA Hons Fine Art, First Class
1984 – 85 – Manchester Polytechnic, Art Foundation
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 – The Birth of Breakdown Clown, Kate Hamburger Kolleg for Advanced Study in the Humanities of Law as Culture, Bonn, Germany
2015 – Mother The Air is Blue, The Air, is Dangerous, F E McWilliam Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland Time Got Kicked Around, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2014 – Black Smoke Rising, touring exhibition, Mac Birmingham, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, UK
2013 – Awaken from the Dream of Reality, Millennium, Cornwall Parliament, Jam Records Falmouth (curated by Olivia Gray)
2012 – Soul Snatcher Possession, Riflemaker Contemporary Art Gallery, London
2011 – The Origins of The Drummer, Millennium Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
2009 – Riflemaker presents at The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, London
2008 – Casting A Dark Democracy, Kenneth Armitage Foundation, London Future History, Goldfish Fine Art, Cornwall
2006 – No Title, Goldfish Fine Art, Cornwall
2005 – Fragments from the Middle World, Turo Cathedral, Cornwall 1999 – La Corrida: Dreams In Red, Falmouth Public Art Gallery, Cornwall
1997 – La Corrida: Dreams In Red, Duncan Campbell Gallery, London
1995 – Fragments from Middle World, Duncan Campbell Gallery, London
1992 – Fragments from Middle World, Albemarle Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | SELECTED
2016 – House of St. Barnabas, London Royal Hibernian Academy, 186th Annual Exhibition, Guest Artist, Dublin, Ireland
2015 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Homo Sapiens Beaux Arts
2014 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Reflections of War, Flowers Gallery, London Back From the Front, RWA, Bristol Out of Our Heads, Shoreditch Town Hall, London Tremenheer Sculpture Garden, Penzance, Cornwall
2013 – Rituals are tellers of us, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance Limbo, Truro Arts Festival, Cornwall Dark Rooms, Old School Heston, UK
2012 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Sculptor’s Drawings, Works on Paper, Pangolin Gallery, London PiH Contemporaries Auction, Bonhams, London Launch Exhibition, Threadneedle Space, London
2011 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London The Exquisite Trove, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance Sculpture Show, Mullan Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2010 – The House of Fairy Tales, Millennium Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall Material Words, F. E McWilliam Gallery, Northern Ireland
2009 – Volta, Art Basel, Riflemaker Gallery, London In The Mix, Pagolin Gallery, London The Sculpture Show, Mullan Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2008 – Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London Icons,108 Fine Art, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK
2007 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Politics Pays Back, Kowalski Gallery @ DACS, London Move, Goldfish Fine Art at Vyner Street, London Margins, Sherborne House Open 07, Sherborne, Dorset, UK
PUBLIC SCULPTURE COMMISIONS:
2012 – The Green Man, Antony Estate, Torpoint, Cornwall
2009 - 11 – The Drummer, Lemon Quay, Truro, Cornwall
2008 – The Minotaur, The Royal Opera Hose, London
2000- 04 – Rites of Dionysus, The Eden Project, Cornwall
AWARDS & PRIZES
2015/16 – Elected Honorary member of the Royal West of England Academy Resident Artist Fellowship: Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study ‘Law as Culture’ Bonn, Germany Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2014 – Resident Artist, Kappatos Gallery Athens
2013 – Elected Member to the Royal Academy Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors Elected Honorary Fellow, Falmouth University
2008 – Selectors’ Award: Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries
2006 – Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Fellowship Award
2005 – The Mullan Prize, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition Prince of Wales Bursary Award, The British School at Athens
2003 – First Prize, Millfield Open
1997 – Prize Winner, Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1996 – Delfina Studio Trust Award, Residency at Casa Manilva, Spain
COLLECTIONS
Arts Council Carew-Pole Garden Trust David Roberts Foundation Delfina Foundation Eden Project Boyle Civic Collection Cornwall County Council Kenneth Armitage Foundation Falmouth Art Gallery Collection British School at Athens UCA Farnham Collection
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS | SELECTED
2015 – Shaw, Tim and Indra Khanna. 2015. Tim Shaw. Bristol: Samson & Co. Art, Memory and the Aftermath of War by Verity Lewis. Editor Paul Gough, Issuu.com
2014 – His dark Materials, Laura Gascoigne, RA Magazine Future Vision, Charlotte Mullins , Telegraph Magazine Reflection of War, Flower East, Gabriel Coxhead, Time Out NakedButSafe Magazine September NBS#7, Interview with Dr.Sozita Goudouna Black Smoke Rising, Exhibition review, Aestheticamagazine.com Featured Artist,Jackdaw Magazine
2013 – Awaken from the Dream of Reality, Millennium The Origins of The Drummer, Millennium, Catalogue
2012 – Aqnb online article: Soul Snatcher Possession
2011 – The Shape of things to come: new sculpture, Brian Sewell, Evening Standard It’s not all doom and gloom at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Brian Sewell, Evening Standard The Genuine Article, Cornwall Today Roger Taylor unveils controversial Cornish statue in Truro, Western Morning News
2009 – The Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries, Financial Times The New Curiosity Shop, GQ, Sophie Lewis Casting A Dark Democracy review, Dazed magazine online Casting A Dark Democracy review, Art Forum, Gilda Williams
2008 – Casting A Dark Democracy review, Financial Times, Jackie Wullschlager Casting A Dark Democracy, Critic’s Choice, FT Casting A Dark Democracy review, Time Out, Francis Gooding Casting A Dark Democracy, Critic’s Choice, Time Out Future History, Goldfish, Catalogue The Genuine Article, Cornwall Today, Alex Wade Penzance Turns Regeneration into a Fine Art, The Observer, Alex Wade No Bull – the Covent Garden Monster, The Evening Standard, Georgina Littejohn
INSTALLATION VIEWS | SELECTED
Casting a Dark Democracy, 2008.
Ketamine (The Bisto Kids Gone Wrong), 2012.
Man on Fire, 2007- 2014.
Mother the Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous, 2015.
WORKS | SELECTED
Maenad II
Bronze ed : 8, H : 20cm.
Maenad IV
Bronze ed : 8, H : 20cm.
Fertility Figure I
Bronze ed : 8, H : 45 cm
2008.
Fertility Figure III
Bronze ed : 8, H : 37 cm
2008.
Head ll,
Bronze ed : 8
H: 30cm
1997.
Breakdown Clown ( Portrait Head I )
H : 55cm ( inc. plinth )
Stocking , wig , filler
2013.
11th July,
Archival print on paper, ed : 3
24 x 33 cm ( each image )