Contemporary Artists

i love the work of artist jennifer collier. jennifer focuses on creating work from recycled paper; by bonding, waxing, trapping and stitching she produces unusual paper ‘fabrics’, which are used to explore the ‘remaking’ of household objects. jennifer treats paper as if it’s cloth, with the main technique employed being stitch; a contemporary twist on […]

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Turner Prize nominee George Shaw explains how a run-down corner of his home town fires his imagination.

Focusing on the mundane two square miles where he grew up in Coventry, painter George Shaw confronts nostalgia in his work which lies at the edge of tradition, writes Matthew Cain.

Of the four artists nominated this year for the Turner Prize, it is the work of the Ilfracombe-based artist George Shaw that resonates most with me. Shaw’s landscapes focus on the mundane and…

George Shaw’s eerie semi-realist paintings of the council estate on the edge of Coventry where he grew up