Leading contemporary painter George Shaw grew up in the 1970s and 1980s on the Tile Hill “council estate,” a government-developed suburban community for the working-class Briton — not unlike American ...

Painter George Shaw decamped to Ilfracombe in Devon in 2004. His then long-term partner, now wife, Katherine, came from the town and they felt it was time for a change from Nottingham.

The show of George Shaw’s work now at the Holburne Museum in Bath confirms that is one of the most distinctive painters of his generation, connecting in different ways to the history of British ...

The exhibition, titled “George Shaw: A Corner of Foreign Field,” comprises nearly 70 paintings, 60 drawings, numerous prints and sketchbook materials from throughout Shaw’s illustrious career. The ...

Coventry artist George Shaw from Tile Hill was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011. ... George Shaw has been turning photographs of a dreary Coventry council estate into works of art.

George Shaw is a British Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1966. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre have featured George Shaw's work in the past.

When I arrange to interview George Shaw at the National Gallery, where he’s the latest associate artist, he asks to meet in front of a painting. John Constable’s Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir ...

The British artist George Shaw is best-known for his eerie paintings of Tile Hill, the council estate in Coventry where he grew up in the 1970s.

Cultural Life: George Shaw, artist ... Visual: Arts Paul Housley's show at the Poppy Sebire gallery was a very refreshing arrangement of paintings and sculptures – I was knocked out by it.