George Shaw valuation
English painter of the Tile Hill council estate in Coventry where he grew up, working in the glossy Humbrol enamel sold for model kits.
George Shaw was born in Coventry in 1966 and grew up on the Tile Hill council estate on the city's edge, the subject of most of his work.
What a work by George Shaw is worth
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Bio
George Shaw was born in Coventry in 1966 and grew up on the Tile Hill council estate on the city's edge, the subject of most of his work. He studied Fine Art at Sheffield Polytechnic from 1986 to 1989 and took an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 1998. He paints in Humbrol enamel, the glossy paint usually bought for model trains and aeroplanes, and his pictures show the estate's houses, neglected corners and woodland, empty of people. Exhibitions include What I Did This Summer at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in 2003, Ash Wednesday at Wilkinson Gallery, London, in 2005 and The End of the World at Galerie Hussenot, Paris, in 2008. He won the John Moores Prize in 1999 and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2011. From 2014 to 2016 he was Associate Artist at the National Gallery, where My Back to Nature, over fifty paintings and drawings centred on a patch of woodland near the estate, was shown in 2016. His work is in the University of Warwick Art Collection and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. He lives in Ilfracombe, Devon.
Besides the enamel paintings there are drawings and print editions: Twelve Short Walks (2005), a portfolio of twelve dust-grain gravures on Magnani paper in a solander box, and The Nearly New Romantic (2022), a lithograph in an edition of 100 published by Hole Editions and The Box Plymouth, signed and numbered on the reverse. Gloss enamel shows scratches clearly, so check the surface. For prints, note the edition number, publisher and signature.
At a glance
- Born
- 1966, Coventry
- Movement
- Contemporary art
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