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Tim Shaw’s sculpture and installation is often dualistic, incorporating current affairs, societal complexity and human conflict with ancient, mythical, metaphysical and primal concerns. Shaw’s powerful oeuvre connects these elements to create wider, timeless portraits of humanity. He is an artist schooled in the traditions of heavy metal casting and academic modelling, however his approach to materials and subjects is totally contemporary. He often creates environments which include sound, light and FX. The tension between tradition and the new, nowness and the ancient, between solidity and breakdown, is an organic part of his worldview, whether he’s looking at the atrocities of Abu Ghraib or the transgression or enlightenment of primitive ritual...
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Tim Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast, 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 including the major public solo exhibitions ‘Beyond Reason’ at San Diego Museum of Art and ‘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’. ‘Man on Fire’ was winner of the Jack Goldhill Awards for Sculpture at the RA Summer Show in 2015 and later acquired for the permanent collection of Imperial War Museum North. It was unveiled in 2023 and won the PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture in 2024. 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. Most recently as an Artist Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities of ‘Law and Culture’ In Bonn, Germany where he began work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’ an existential sculptural work utilising sculpture, robotics and AI.
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We are thrilled to share that Tim Shaw RA’s 'Man on Fire’, which is on permanent display in the Imperial War Museum North Collection, has won the 2024 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture.
Tim Shaw’s ‘Burning of Lifting the Curse’, in association with Anima Mundi, has become part of Peter Gabriel’s ‘i/o’ album project and live tour. Other collaborators include Ai Weiwei, Nick Cave, Olafur Eliasson, Henry Hudson, Annette Messager, Antony Micallef, David Moreno, Cornelia Parker, Megan Rooney, David Spriggs and Barthélémy Toguo…
Anima Mundi are delighted to announce that the Imperial War Museum have acquired Tim Shaw’s monumental sculpture 'Man On Fire' to be permanently installed at the Imperial War Museum North…
'The Court' is the second song from the album i/o by Peter Gabriel. The track is accompanied by a cover image featuring Tim Shaw’s ‘Lifting the Curse’ exhibited by Anima Mundi, and later burnt in a ritualistic ceremony...
Tim Shaw’s 'Casting a Dark Democracy' is included alongside Francisco Goya, Otto Dix, Christian Boltanski, Maurizio Cattelan, Gerhard Richter and David Shrigley in ’The Pain of Others’ at Dox Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague.
Mabon’ is the first in an ongoing series of international mixed online exhibitions following this rhythm of the seasons, known as ‘the wheel of the year’. This ‘calendar’ provides a cue for the duration of each show, and inevitably flavours the selection of works presented…
Following Tim Shaw’s extraordinary solo exhibition 'Fág an Bealach (Clear the Way)’ at Anima Mundi a ceremony took place where the votive sculptural installation ‘Lifting the Curse’ was set aflame and its burnt entrails taken to the river and washed away, transmuting negative in to positive energy…
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.
Anima Mundi’s major online international mixed exhibition featuring the work of 40 international artists, is now available to view on our website alongside the online catalogue, images, texts and video…
Offering a unique opportunity for a poetic space to meditate on key issues facing our species and through intricate interconnection our entire planet, at a pivotal turning point in human history.
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
'Ode to a Nightingale' is now open online. It was curated in response to the extraordinary crisis moment of lockdown that we find ourselves in and is our most international exhibition to date.
Anima Mundi is proud to present ‘Protected by Alarms’ which takes place in the empty and derelict, Vicarage Flats in St. Ives. The exhibition provides an eclectic response to the confused and challenging backdrop of this moment in time.
Tim Shaw’s monumental sculpture ‘Man on Fire’ is included in 'Fire: Flashes to Ashes in British Art 1692-2019', an exhibition which includes significant artists including J.M.W Turner, Joseph Wright of Derby, William Blake, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland, John Martin, Cornelia Parker, David Nash, Mat Collishaw and Jeremy Deller
The 251st annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has opened its doors once again. This edition includes works from Tim Shaw, Sarah Ball, Rebecca Harper, Andrew Hardwick and Peter Randall-Page.
Tim Shaw RA's major solo exhibition 'Beyond Reason' opens at The San Diego Museum of Art on 20th October and continues until 24th February 2019.
Tim Shaw 'What Remains' is on show at The Exchange in a partnership with Anima-Mundi to present Tim Shaw’s work across two sites during 2017/18.
Tim Shaw launches 'Something is Not Quite Right' with a performance that journeyed through the labyrinthine streets of St Ives and finished inside the Anima-Mundi
Tim Shaw’s stunning and provocative exhibition ‘Something is Not Quite Right’ opened on Friday 13th October
Tim Shaw develops an existential, robotic sculptural work at year long residency at Bonn University
Anima-Mundi curate ‘From Silence’ at Herrick Gallery, Mayfair