"Shaw’s paintings sneak right up to the classical formulas of beauty and composition, and then quickly back away again leaving the viewer wanting. She dangles completion in front of the onlooker like an unreachable carrot. While this palpable manipulation is at times uncomfortable, its reflection in contemporary life is equally so. The works evokes the emotions of incompleteness and wanting that can riddle this over-promised and unfulfilled 3rd millennium reality."
Seth Orion Schwaiger MFA, GSA
Sarah graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2001; her work has been purchased by private collectors in the UK and abroad, and resides in many private collections, including Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood. She works from her studio in Brighton.
Upcoming and current shows
Sept 2017 Anima Mundi, Thiene, Italy
August 2017 Curated group show - to be announced
June 2017 Curated group show - to be announced
May 2017 Winner 'British Women Artists' Prize
May 2017 Ruth Borchard Portrait Prize
May 2017 Curated group show, 'Ceremony' - No. 20 Arts, Islington, London
April 2017 Curated group show, 'Painting (Now)' Studio One Gallery, London
April 2017 Shortlisted Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize
March 2017 Shortlisted Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Dec 2016 Winners show, National Open Art, Pallant House, Chichester
Sept 2016 National Open art Competition Mercers Hall, London
Sept 2016 'Anglomania' One of four solo shows with Dadaprojects, Thiene, Italy
June, 2016 Chroma, Group show, Brighton
April 2016 ,The Other Art Fair with National Open Art, London
Dec '15 Dada Projects 'Dada 8' Naked Eye Gallery, Brighton
Oct ' 15 Pre - Selected Threadneedle Art Prize
Oct '15 Lacey Contemporary Inaugural Show, Holland Park, London
Oct - Nov '15 National Open Art Competition, Royal College of Art, London
Nov '15 Harrogate International Art Expo with NOA
Sept '15 Art Gemini Prize, Menier Gallery, London
Aug '15 'Heads' Studio One Gallery, London
Aug '15 'Connect2Colour' Summer arts prize, Lacey Contemporary Gallery, London
June - July '15 'Shift' Ink-d Gallery, Brighton
March '15 AAF Battersea with Bo-Lee Gallery
Feb '15 'Wanderlust', Lacey Contemporary, London
Jan '15 London Art Fair with Ink-d Gallery
Dec - Jan '14 Artist in residence National Open, Minerva theatre, Chichester (followed by national tour)
Sept - Dec '14 National Open Art, Somerset House, London, Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Sept-Oct ’14 Threadneedle Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London
July – Sept ’14 ‘Mix’ Group show, Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London
July ’14 ‘Parallels’ Naked Eye Gallery, Brighton
July –Sept ’14 ‘East Sussex Open’, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
June ’14 ‘Cork Street Open’, London
July ’14 Pushing Paint’, Ink_d Gallery, Brighton
Jan ’14 ‘Passages’, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Jan '14 Art Gemini Prize, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Dec '13 Royal Institute of Oil Painters Open, Mall Galleries, London
Oct '13 National Open Art Competition
Minerva Theatre, Chichester, Royal College of Art, London
Sept '13 Zeitgeist Open 2013, Zeitgeist Art Projects, London
Feb ’13 ’32 Painters’, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
Dec ;12 The Group, Winter Collection, Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London
Dec ’12 Aesthetica Art Prize
Oct ’12 Group show, Ink_d Gallery, Brighton
July ‘ 12 Fine art auction and exhibition: Tooveys, Sussex
in association with Horsham museum
Jun '11 Farm Road Collective, Brighton
Nov '10 National Open Art Competition, Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Throwback Thursday time! Namesake painting from 'Shift' my solo show in 2015,, and to mark the… https://t.co/XzpFMvcBEd
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Moving on from disembodied hearts. But not far. Beasts. #sarahshaw #abstract #figurative #drawings https://t.co/Zl8KPZw8iY
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Eight drawings derived from one googled heart whilst listening to 'Skeleton Tree'. It's grey… https://t.co/ttzqgICwni
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Study from a sad but cathartic painting from earlier this year evoked from hearing of a good… https://t.co/5LNl7Bi2a3
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