"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."
Sarah graduated from Falmouth College of Art with a first class honours degree in Fine Art Painting. Her work has become increasingly sought after and resides in many collections including that of Ronnie Wood and one of her own personal musical heroes, Thom Yorke. Her enigmatic and sensitive paintings had been used for a number of album covers including the band Daughter with their 2016 album, ‘Not to disappear’. She works from her studio in Brighton, UK.
Sarah Shaw – CV 2023
Recent achievements:
Longlisted Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2023
Longlisted for the ‘Contemporary British Painting Prize – 2022’
Longlisted for the ‘Ing Discerning Eye’ 2022
Upcoming shows:
2023
Goddesses (selected group show) Terrace Gallery, London
Lido Gallery, Margate
Solo show Whistleblower Gallery, Brighton
‘Circles’ Whistleblower Gallery, Brighton
2022
‘Discerning Eye’ Mall Galleries, London
‘A Rabblement of Bone and Rot’ Artworks, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Solo show, ‘Diableries’ Huddersfield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire
2021
‘Secret Histories, Excavations in Paint’ Whistleblower Gallery, Brighton, UK
‘Pause’, a solo commission of 16 Paintings Twr Y Felin, St Davids, Wales, UK
2020
‘Made in Winter’, group show Whistleblower Gallery, Brighton, UK
‘7 Contemporary Painters’ Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
‘Re-Visible’ Four man show Dean Clough, Halifax, UK
2019
‘I’ve Got Something Against You’ solo show Whistleblower Gallery, Brighton, UK
‘Dear Christine’, curated group show Newcastle, Swansea, London, UK
‘Disposition’, curated group show Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
Aesthetica Art Prize York, UK
RWA, 167th Open. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2018
AEDAS, Commission Twr Y Felin, Pembrokeshire Wales
LAE, curated group show, November, London, UK
Modern Masters, group show. Art Republic, Brighton UK
Jackson’s Art Prize. London, UK
Delphian Gallery Open Call London, UK
‘White + Black, Group show Whistleblower Gallery, Brighton, UK
‘Crossings’, Group show Southwell Minister, Nottingham,UK
‘Animus’ Solo show New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, UK
2017
‘Here we go!’ Group show Whistleblower Gallery, Brighton, UK
RHA, Dublin SO Fine Art Collections, Dublin, IR
Shortlisted Threadneedle Art Prize Mall Galleries, London, UK
‘Anima Mundi’ Thiene, Italy
‘Ceremony’ TatArt Barcelona, Spain
Winner ‘British Women Artists’ Prize London , UK
Ruth Borchard Portrait Prize London, UK
Curated group show, ‘Ceremony’ No. 20 Arts, Islington, London
Curated group show, ‘Painting (Now)’ Studio One Gallery, London
Shortlisted Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize London, UK
Shortlisted Royal Academy Summer Show, London
2016
Pre-selected Aesthetica Art Prize, Worldwide
Winners show, National Open Art Pallant House, Chichester, UK
National Open Art Competition Mercers Hall, London, UK
‘Anglomania’ Dadaprojects, Thiene, Italy
Chroma, Brighton, UK
The Other Art Fair with National Open Art London, UK
2015
Dada Projects, Dada 8 Naked Eye Gallery, Brighton, UK
Pre-selected Threadneedle Art Prize London, UK
Lacey Contemporary Inaugural Show Holland Park, London, UK
National Open Art Competition Royal College of Art, London, UK
Harrogate International Art Expo with NOA Harrogate, UK
Art Gemini Prize Menier Gallery, London, UK
‘Heads’, Curated group Studio One Gallery, London, UK
‘Connect2Colour’ Lacey Contemporary, London, UK
‘Shift’, Solo show Ink_d gallery, Brighton, UK
AAF Battersea Bo-Lee Gallery, London, UK
‘Wanderlust’ Lacey Contemporary, London, UK
London Art Fair Ink_d gallery, Brighton, UK
2014
Artist in residence, National Open. Minerva Theatre, Chichester, UK
National Open Art Somerset House, London, UK
Threadneedle Art Prize Mall Galleries, London, UK
‘Mix’ Group show Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London, UK
‘Parallels’ Solo show Naked Eye Gallery, Brighton, UK
‘East Sussex Open’ Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
‘Cork Street Open’ London, UK
‘Pushing Paint’ Ink_d gallery, Brighton, UK
‘Parallels’ Solo show New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, UK
Art Gemini Prize Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2013
Royal Institute of Oil Painters Open Mall Galleries, London, UK
National Open Art Competition, UK London, Chichester, UK
Zeitgeist Open 2013 Zeitgeist Art Projects, London, UK
’32 Painters’ Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK
2012
The Group, Winter Collection Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London, UK
Aesthetica Art Prize York, UK
Fine art auction and exhibition, Tooveys. Horsham museum, Sussex, UK