Tim Shaw Major Solo Exhibition Opens At Anima Mundi

Anima Mundi kick off our new year exhibition diary with a three floor solo exhibition by Tim Shaw RA.

The exhibition, titled ‘Fág an Bealach (Clear the Way)’, brings together a number of Shaw’s recent sculpture and installation projects under one roof.

The exhibition includes ‘Lifting the Curse’ shown in its entirety for the first and last time prior to its ritual burning after the exhibition closure, and ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’, an astonishing work which integrates sculpture with robotics and artificial intelligence, shown in the UK for the very first time. These two installation works will be exhibited alongside the recent project titled ‘The Mothers Tongue Goes Whoring Amongst the People’ currently existing as a series of bronze maquettes, 2D works and 3 brand new works shown in their raw wax, straw and rag state. Also showing are ‘Head I’ and ‘Head II’, the latest incarnations of a sentinel form that Shaw has been working with for over thirty years - made during lockdown, Shaw felt compelled to return once again to the subject, working with meditative repetition to attain strength and stillness through quiet contemplation - this work reflects an introspection we have all engaged in this past two years.

Tim Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast in 1964. He currently lives in Cornwall. He was elected an Academician at The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. Shaw has had a number of significant solo shows throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally. Most recently the major public solo exhibitions – ‘Beyond Reason’ at San Diego Museum of Art, ‘What Remains’ and ‘Something is Not Quite Right’ a collaboration between The Exchange and Anima Mundi, 'Mother the Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous’ was held in the F.E McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland, 'Black Smoke Rising’ toured from Mac Birmingham to Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace at the Royal West of England Academy. He has undertaken a number of public commissions including 'The Rites of Dionysus' for The Eden Project, 'The Minotaur' for The Royal Opera House and 'The Drummer' for Lemon Quay, Truro. A more political side to his work became evident in a number of sculptures responding to the issues of terrorism and The Iraq War. 'Tank on Fire' was awarded the selectors prize at the inaugural Threadneedle Prize in 2008 and the installation 'Casting a Dark Democracy' was reviewed in 2008 by Jackie Wullschlager of The Financial Times as ‘The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London’. Shaw has been supported by the Kappatos Athens Art Residency, The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The British School of Athens,The Delfina Studio Trust through residencies in Greece, Spain and a fellowship in London and as Artist Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advance Study in the Humanities of 'Law and Culture' In Bonn, Germany where he began work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’. Most recently Shaw has been working with Imperial War Museum since 2018, to realise and produce a major outdoor sculpture sponsored by The Frampton Trust (Royal Academy) and the Arts Council of England.

Fág an Bealach (Clear the Way)’ continues from 18/2 until 4/4/2022 at Anima Mundi.

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