Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 18 February–15 May 2011
By MICHAEL SPENS
George Shaw has been working away since 1996 at least, and this new show brings his pa...
... Dark Art (2017) and John Smith’s Funny Old World (2016) take crass and darkly humorous approaches to the situation in the US, mocking Donald Trump’s image.
“Then y...
... through the objects that were produced and selected at the time. By contrast, George Shaw’s paintings explore a deeply personal history: in his large-scale depictions of...