George Shaw: 'You don’t really learn much in art college'
George Shaw currently has an exhibition in Limerick. (Image courtesy of Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London)
The British artist George Shaw is best-known for his eerie paintings of Tile Hill, the council estate in Coventry where he grew up in the 1970s. There are no people or creatures in his streetscapes, nor are there vehicles, and the sense of uncanniness is heightened by his preference for Humbrol enamel paints – more often used to colour Airfix models - over traditional oils or acrylics.
These days Shaw lives more than three hours from Coventry, in Ilfracombe, North Devon. But he has never really left Tile Hill, at least not in his imagination, and the place inevitably informs his exhibition of new work at Limerick City Gallery of Art, Nothing Strange or Startling.
