Art on Chairs
Paul Chamberlain was a major award winner of the ‘Art on Chairs’ international design competition.
Animal Human (Sticky Knots)
This strand of research considers the representation of animals in society and culturally. Through the work Chloë Brown asks how do humans interact with animals, how are animals displayed and how does our relationship with animals shape our understanding of them philosophically, culturally and socially?
Interior Architecture and Design
Gain a global understanding of the world of interior architecture and design – becoming an Interior Designer who designs and creates spatial environments of the future.
Computer History
A social, cultural and design history of the evolution of the electronic computer, its reception, consumption and representation
Arrivals and Departures: New Art Perspectives of Hong Kong
Arrivals and Departures is an exhibition exploring dual perspectives of Hong Kong – the city and its urban life.
Post Industrial Manufacturing Research Group
For a number of years now, I have been considering the impact of new and emerging technologies in computer aided design and direct digital manufacture. The implications are incredible. Post Industrial Manufacturing will change the very nature of design, the way we teach design, and the relationship of consumers to products.
Post-industrial ruins
This is a collaborative project that both deepens and develops understanding of the post-industrial landscape with reference to the industrial ruin.
20 Euros per kilo
This a key work representing an ongoing enquiry into the politics and economics of commodified labour in a global economy. 20 Euros per kilo (2011) was commissioned by Static Gallery Liverpool, and Peter Gorschlüter, Deputy Director Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, for the exhibition and conference 'Terminal Convention'. Shaw develops a critically engaged enquiry into the language of sculpture, narrative and exhibition that chronicles the life of an object and its concealed modes of production.
Modern British Sculpture Royal Academy London
This curatorial research and exhibition was commissioned by The Royal Academy. It was an extended critical reflection on what became an export franchise through the last century. By posing questions such as ‘what is British?’ and ‘what is Sculpture?’ it told a story that explored what each of those terms brings to the other.
The Manufacture of Ultramarine Blue
In the work, ultramarine blue (an artificial lapis lazuli once made in Backbarrow and still made in Hull) was ‘recreated’ through a cyclical process using ‘leisure activity’ instead of hard labour.