Almost Lost (1)

George Shaw (born 1966)

Southampton City Art Gallery

2007

George Shaw’s paintings, etchings and drawings are rich evocations of place and memory. He paints and draws empty playing fields, pubs, bus shelters, lock-up garages and wooded hinterlands, all within about a half-mile radius of his old Tot Hill estate home. This large work demonstrates his exquisite drawing style and depicts a tangled wood at the edge of suburbia. It evokes a sense of desolation and dislocation, that universal undercurrent in contemporary urban life, a subject that Shaw has made his own. Southampton aims to collect works in different media by the same artist. This drawing will join Shaw's painting, 'Scenes from the Passion: The Unicorn', which depicts a deserted pub.

• Medium: charcoal on paper
• Dimensions: 136 x 167cm
• Grant Paid: £3,600 ( Total: £10,800)
• ArtFunded in: 2008
• Vendor: Wilkinson Gallery

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