Tim Shaw
ARTIST INFO
Location
Cornwall, United Kingdom
TYPICAL Mediums
Bronze, Timber
BIO
Contemporary visual artist and sculptor, Tim Shaw was born in Belfast in 1964. Educated in Belfast, Dublin and Enniskillen, Shaw began modeling with clay in school and decided to become a sculptor at the age of 15 after discovering a book on Rodin in a local bookshop. Shaw studied art at Manchester Polytechnic and Falmouth School of Art, and after a brief period working as a conservator of buildings and sculpture, decided to devote himself fully to creating sculpture.
In 2013 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London and he exhibits in the London Summer Exhibition annually.
As Shaw states, 'My work, which is essentially figurative, delves into the nature of the human psyche and has elements that are political, metaphysical and mythological. Themes of ritual and conflict reoccur. There is an attempt to understand the nature of who we are through a process of reduction: stripping back the human condition to its primordial bare bones'.
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