ADRIAN SHAW: PROFILE, Jan 2014
As both a trained scientist (Imperial College) and artist (St. Martin’s), Adrian uses montage, collage and other mixed-media methods to explore the boundaries between technology, the Environment and Society. He is particularly keen on utilising ‘found’ or ‘discarded’ objects – the detritus of our post-colonial, Global soc/iety (ieties) in his art. Often, too, he uses assemblage and installation (including painting, text, printing, text, and light-based methods – photography, video, etc. in a trans-media approach. He is also, as someone of mixed (Raj Anglo-Indian) background, interested in investigating Identity, Memory and ‘diaspora’ (which he calls ‘Universal Tourism’). Stylistically, he works in a ‘faux-naïve’ manner.
Adrian lives in Nottingham (where he has a studio) and has studied for an MA (in abeyance) at De Montfort University, Leicester, in lens-based media. He is a member/associate of a number of professional organisations, (DACS, S/SE Arts. Nottingham Creative Network, NAWE-ARTSCAPE, etc.), has worked as an Artist/Mentor/Creative Practitioner in Education and other projects in London and the East Midlands, funded by Arts Council England, the UK Equality & Human Rights Commission and others, and has had his work shown in the UK, Europe and N. America (incl. a solo show at The Nottingham Society of Artists Gallery, and group-shows at View From The Top Gallery at Waterstone’s Bookshop, the Castle Museum Gallery Nottingham, and The Mall Gallery, London.
Last Summer, Adrian was again involved with Sherwood Art-week, showing his paintings, photographs and assemblages at various venues, including a solo show at Sherwood Police Station, and at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre, where he was Lead-Artist in a group show), and the Hubb Gallery (again as Lead Artist).
He has had a solo-show (‘Mama Raj’ Dec. 2011) and group-show (‘Argentum-Aurum’ with Opus@Oldknows Artist Group, Aug 2012) at The New Art Exchange, Nottingham. He also ran ‘Sci-Art’ workshops at ’Gravity Fields’ Sir Isaac Newton Fetival, Grantham, Sep. 2012.
In 2009, Adrian established links – through The Greater Richmond Partnership and The East Midlands Development Agency, with various arts, media and science organisations and people in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is also involved as an Associate Artist in ‘Sci-Art’ with the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, where he has given presentations and workshops, and as a Trustee Board Member of Playworks/Play Forum Nottingham. Adrian has just commenced an AA2A placement at the University of Lincoln School of Art. He plans to use this opportunity to prepare and develop ideas and work for an OPUS group-show in October 2014 at the Brick Lane Gallery, Whitechapel, London, and other projects.
Apart from his art and media activities, Adrian has lectured in Science Skills and Media at the University of Lincoln. He continues to work at his studio at OPUS, and with other activities, including writing, consultancy and teaching, elsewhere.
Qualifications: BA, BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD, PGCE, MRSC, CChem
STUDIO: OPUS, Nottingham, St Ann’s Hill Road, Nottingham NG3, UK
ARTIST STATEMENT: April 2012.
My work uses a mixed-/trans-media approach to explore issues of Identity, Memory & Diaspora (which I call 'Tourism'). Stylistically, it may be seen as abstract-figurative, faux-naive. It incorporates the use of found/discarded objects/materials, assemblage/montage, text and light-based/-generated methods (founded, as it generally is, on photography/video). It also attempts to link using a 'Sci-Art' approach 'the twin pillars of human endeavour' to portray a 'landscape of the imagination', and which is derived from my ideas as both a professional artist and scientist working in 'the human environment'. I hope to further explore both the elements and methods described above, coming from my painting and photography background, and the resultant work which I have exhibited at a number of venues in the UK and Overseas. The work presented here is an example of my cultural research and production, and is drawn from my 'Argentum-Aurum' series based on C-type images. c. A.S. 1`/01/14, Nottingham, UK.
ADRIAN SHAW: PROFILE, Jan 2014
As both a trained scientist (Imperial College) and artist (St. Martin’s), Adrian uses montage, collage and other mixed-media methods to explore the boundaries between technology, the Environment and Society. He is particularly keen on utilising ‘found’ or ‘discarded’ objects – the detritus of our post-colonial, Global soc/iety (ieties) in his art. Often, too, he uses assemblage and installation (including painting, text, printing, text, and light-based methods – photography, video, etc. in a trans-media approach. He is also, as someone of mixed (Raj Anglo-Indian) background, interested in investigating Identity, Memory and ‘diaspora’ (which he calls ‘Universal Tourism’). Stylistically, he works in a ‘faux-naïve’ manner.
Adrian lives in Nottingham (where he has a studio) and has studied for an MA (in abeyance) at De Montfort University, Leicester, in lens-based media. He is a member/associate of a number of professional organisations, (DACS, S/SE Arts. Nottingham Creative Network, NAWE-ARTSCAPE, etc.), has worked as an Artist/Mentor/Creative Practitioner in Education and other projects in London and the East Midlands, funded by Arts Council England, the UK Equality & Human Rights Commission and others, and has had his work shown in the UK, Europe and N. America (incl. a solo show at The Nottingham Society of Artists Gallery, and group-shows at View From The Top Gallery at Waterstone’s Bookshop, the Castle Museum Gallery Nottingham, and The Mall Gallery, London.
Last Summer, Adrian was again involved with Sherwood Art-week, showing his paintings, photographs and assemblages at various venues, including a solo show at Sherwood Police Station, and at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre, where he was Lead-Artist in a group show), and the Hubb Gallery (again as Lead Artist).
He has had a solo-show (‘Mama Raj’ Dec. 2011) and group-show (‘Argentum-Aurum’ with Opus@Oldknows Artist Group, Aug 2012) at The New Art Exchange, Nottingham. He also ran ‘Sci-Art’ workshops at ’Gravity Fields’ Sir Isaac Newton Fetival, Grantham, Sep. 2012.
In 2009, Adrian established links – through The Greater Richmond Partnership and The East Midlands Development Agency, with various arts, media and science organisations and people in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is also involved as an Associate Artist in ‘Sci-Art’ with the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, where he has given presentations and workshops, and as a Trustee Board Member of Playworks/Play Forum Nottingham. Adrian has just commenced an AA2A placement at the University of Lincoln School of Art. He plans to use this opportunity to prepare and develop ideas and work for an OPUS group-show in October 2014 at the Brick Lane Gallery, Whitechapel, London, and other projects.
Apart from his art and media activities, Adrian has lectured in Science Skills and Media at the University of Lincoln. He continues to work at his studio at OPUS, and with other activities, including writing, consultancy and teaching, elsewhere.
Qualifications: BA, BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD, PGCE, MRSC, CChem
STUDIO: OPUS, Nottingham, St Ann’s Hill Road, Nottingham NG3, UK
ARTIST STATEMENT: April 2012.
My work uses a mixed-/trans-media approach to explore issues of Identity, Memory & Diaspora (which I call 'Tourism'). Stylistically, it may be seen as abstract-figurative, faux-naive. It incorporates the use of found/discarded objects/materials, assemblage/montage, text and light-based/-generated methods (founded, as it generally is, on photography/video). It also attempts to link using a 'Sci-Art' approach 'the twin pillars of human endeavour' to portray a 'landscape of the imagination', and which is derived from my ideas as both a professional artist and scientist working in 'the human environment'. I hope to further explore both the elements and methods described above, coming from my painting and photography background, and the resultant work which I have exhibited at a number of venues in the UK and Overseas. The work presented here is an example of my cultural research and production, and is drawn from my 'Argentum-Aurum' series based on C-type images. c. A.S. 1`/01/14, Nottingham, UK.
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