“Shaw’s work is filled with a personal vision of the world. She works with a sensitivity and poetry which is quite exceptional”.

Sir Roger de Grey Past president Royal Academy

Shaw’s work is rooted in the palimpsest layers of materiality of the land where they work and live. creating an exploratory poetry of the land and the light. A reflection of an essence of place, with the artist as conduit.

Into this mix comes a lens of subconscious thought and reflections together with current states of being which are both personal to them and also to the wider world. They examine the fragile and temporal poetics of the land with the intertwining of the human spirit.

Shaw describes where they live and works as being “Not Far beyond the edge lands. Farmland with an intrinsic beauty, which is in many ways the same as you would find should you time travel backwards 400 years but it is also a landscape which bears the marks, memories and traces of human intervention on the natural world from the end of the Medieval period right up to our Anthropecenic present”

Shaw explores these inner and outer scapes, reflecting on humanity’s impact on the land. On imagined and actual histories, childhood, play, conflict and the stories that we weave through experience and time that are subconsciously inherited and passed through generations.

As Shaw explores these themes, process takes precedence as the work is made. They responds to the qualities of discarded, found materials and paint, making intuitively, working with thoughts as they surface, thinking equally with hands and head as the ideas sharpen, respond and shift with the materials.

AWARDS

The Royal Academy Richard Ford Award

The Haworth Trust Scholarship

The Chadwyck-Healey Prize for Painting

The Campbell Jones Composition Prize

The Philip Connard Travel Scholarship

Exhibitions

Upcoming in 2026

BOTH Gallery, 3 Woman show with B.A. Adeymo and Justine Hounan, 16-29 March 2026

SNAG 2 (in association with BLINK) Copeland Rd Peckham, 16-19 April 2026

FALLING FAINTLY, FAINTLY FALLING 2, Finch Gallery, London Fields, January 19th

ALL OVER THE PLACE, Twoplustwo Gallery @acmeart Acme glassyard studios, Stockwell. October

2025

The LONDON SCULPTURE PRIZE, Award ceremony and PV 6-8.30 25th November, Gunnersbury Park Museum, open 26-27 November

THE LAND WE LIVE WITHIN, Sussex Contemporary

ROSE PROJECT Finch Gallery London and 57w57arts, 5th Avenue New York

CHIMERA - MASS End of Year Show Thames side Gallery

SNAG, Safehouse 2, Copeland Rd, Peckham. 25th-27th April (alongside BLINK)

HACK 8558 with Bow Arts SOHO CONNECTIONS 125 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1

ENTANGLEMENT Mass Interim Show 2025, Thames-side, Woolwich

FALLING FAINTLY, FAINTLY FALLING curated by Belinda Worsley, Finch Gallery,

London Fields, Sidworth St E2

2024

NO FORMAT GALLERY Open, Moulding Lane, Deptford, SE14 6BN

MATERIAL MATTERS Safehouses 1&2, 139 Copeland Rd, Peckham SE15 3SN

PAPERWORK Newhaven Project Space Installation Sussex

NEWHAVEN OPEN, Sussex

WOOLWICH OPEN Thames-side Gallery London

LANDSLIDE Mass 2024 Thames-side Gallery

Roseproject24, curated by Belinda Worsley, Sidwoth Street London E8,

then Manchester Milan Paris

2023

AKA Contemporary, Cambridge (Winter show)

AKA Contemporary, Cambridge (Summer show)

Art Matters 1, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park E1

2014 Bayard Gallery, Cambridge

2012 Anstey Bury (solo show)

2010 Air Gallery, Dover Street, London W1 (solo show)

2009 Jodie Eastwood Fine Art (summer show)

2008 In association with Corfield Morris Cork Street London W1 (solo show)

1996 Christopher Hull Gallery, London

Pump House Gallery, London (solo show)

Flying Colours Gallery, London

Battersea Art Fair, London

1995

Christopher Hull Gallery, London

Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London

1994

Christopher Hull Gallery, London

The Pump House Gallery, London (solo show)

Hart Gallery, Upper Street, London

Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London

1993

Sweetwaters Gallery, London

Gallery Kohler, London

The 20th Century British Art Fair, Royal College of Art,

Cadogan Contemporary, London

Northcote Gallery, London

Sotheby’s, London

1992

Cadogan Contemporary , London (Solo Show)

United Nations Building, Geneva (Exhibition of British painters to mark the presidency of the EU)

Bedales Gallery, Petersfield, Hampshire

401 1/2 Studios

1991

The Lamont Gallery, London E2. (3 Woman Show)

The Talent Store Gallery, London SW1 (Solo Show)

1990

The Discerning Eye Exhibition,(invited by Roger de Grey)

1993 PUBLIC ART COMMSSION Triptych Genesis for Milton Keynes City Church

SOME SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Royal Academy

Richard Ford Award

A.S. Byatt

Brinsley Ford

De Beers Contemporary Art Collection

HRH The King

Imogen Stubbs

William Burlington

TEACHING

2012-2023 Head of Art Department, St Johns College School, Cambridge

2025 Visiting artist Melbourne School, Cambridgeshire

Visiting Artist St Peter’s School, Cambridgeshire

2023-2024 Visiting artist, Bassingbourn School, Cambridgeshire

2020-2022 Visiting artist, St Luke’s School Cambridge

1991-1992 Visiting lecturer, University of Reading

EDUCATION

MASS Turps Sculpture 2023/25

City & Guilds of London Art School Painting 1st Class Honours.

Quote continued from above “...Shaw follows a heightened sense of awareness between observed and imagined scapes and poetic expression, factual representation dissolving in and out of shape, light and pattern. ”