"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.
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Upcoming Shows
2020 Made in Winter, Group show, Brighton
2020 7 Contemporary Painters, Bermondsey Project Space, London
2020 Re-Visible Four man show, Dean Clough, Halifax
2020 Dear Christine Arthouse London
Competitions, prizes and awards
2019, RWA 167 th Open, Bristol
2019, Aesthetica Art prize
2017, British Women Artists - winner
2016, University of Chichester Fine Art Award - National Open Art
2018, Jacksons Art Prize, London
2017, Shortlist: Threadneedle Art prize
2017, Shortlist Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize
2017, Shortlist: Royal Academy Summer Show
2016, Artist in residence - Minerva Theatre Chichester with NOA
2014, National Open Art Competition
2014, Threadneedle Prize, London
2014, East Sussex Open, Towner Gallery
2014, Cork Street Open, London
2014, Art Gemini Prize - Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2013, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London
2013, National Open Art - Minerva Theatre
2013, Zeitgeist Art Prize, London
2012, Aesthetica Art Prize, York
2010, National Open Art, Chichester
Solo Exhibitions
2019, I've got something against you, Whistleblower Gallery, Brighton
2018, 14 Paintings, Commission - 2018 - 2019, St Davids, Pembrokeshire
2018, Animus, New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey
2016, Anglomania, Villa Fabris, Thiene, Italy
2015, Shift, Ink-d Gallery, Brighton
2014, Parallels, Naked Eye, Brighton
2014, Passages, New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey
2013, Sarah Shaw - New Paintings, Artist Residence, Brighton
Group Exhibitions
2019, RWA 167 th Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2019, Dear Christine, Vane, Newcastle. Elysium Gallery, Swansea. Arthouse, London, Newcastle, Swansea, London
2019, Aesthetica Art Prize, York gallery, York
2019, Disposition, Bermondsey Art Space, London
2018, Private View, LAE, London
2018, Star Wars, Dynamite Gallery, Brighton
2018, Modern Masters, Art Republic, Brighton
2018, Jacksons Art Prize, Cass Art, London
2018, 14 Paintings, St Davids, Pembrokeshire
2018, Crossings, Southwell Minster, Nottingham
2018, S O Fine Arts, RHA, Dublin
2017, Anima Mundi, Villa Fabris, Thiene, Italy
2017, Ceremony, No. 20 Arts, London
2016, Winners Show, Pallant House, Chichester
2016, NOA, Mercers Hall, London
2016, Chroma, Dynamite Gallery, Brighton
2016, National Open Art, Other Art Fair, London
2016, Heads, Studio One, London
2015, Inaugural Show, Lacey Contemporary, London
2015, Open Art Competition, National Open Art, Royal College of Art, London
2015, International Exposition, National Open art, Harrogate
2015, Art Gemini Prize, Menier Gallery, London
2015, Connect 2 Colour, Lacey Contemporary, London
2015, AAF, Bo - Lee Gallery, London
2015, Wanderlust, Lacey Contemporary, London
2015, AAF, Ink-d Gallery, London
2014, Group show, Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London
2014, Pushing Paint, Ink-d Gallery, Brighton
2013, 32 Painters, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2012, The Group, Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London
2011, Farm Road Collective, Farm Rd, Brighton
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Bits of bat's today. Bad dreams last night. Dreamed I was falling out of the sky. Not vertically but diagonally, s… https://t.co/7urjQzoky1
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Experimenting a bit this week with something I've always been interested in and have often made variations of: pain… https://t.co/j3gMSx5E1i
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Experimenting a bit this week with something I've always been interested in and have often made variations of: pain… https://t.co/B0WOOap10D
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