George Shaw, UK

George Shaw’s paintings are based around where he lived as a child – the housing estate Tile Hill, Coventry (one of the first built after the war) and the surrounding countryside.

The images Shaw uses have a haunting innocence and are as much about what has been forgotten, lost, swept away as they are about what is remembered. Each painting almost becomes a headstone marking a memory or perhaps a moment, dead and passed. The paintings are made using Humbrol Enamel Paint coupled with the ordinaryness and familiarity of the imagery gives the paintings a nostalgic feel.

George Shaw (Born Coventry in 1966 and went to the Royal College of Art in 1996. Since then he has exhibited widely both in UK and internationally. In 2011 he was nominated for the Turner Prize. He was the Associate Artist at the National Gallery 2014 – 2016 and had a major survey show at Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven in2017. His works is in numerous public collections in Tate Collection, Arts Council of Great Britain, British Council.He now lives and works in Nottingham.