Phil Shaw (b. 1950), The Truth in Black and White with Some Grey Areas 3, 2016

Eight colour pigment based archival print on Hahnemuhle paper

Edition of 65

117 x 216 cm (Framed)

£18,500 plus any applicable taxes

Professor Phil Shaw is a ground-breaking British digital-printmaker, who creates hyper-real images of great formal elegance and conceptual richness. Born in Yorkshire in 1955, his distinctive ‘bookshelf’ prints interrogate the changing place of the printed word in a digital age, and the transfer of meaning through inter-textuality. Depicting books arranged on shelves, their titles. merge and melt, forming unexpected connections and new dynamics. These are images to explore and intrigue; they are clever, funny, unsettling, and beautiful. Awarded his Doctorate in ink technology, Shaw uses a specialized eight-colour printing process on fine-grade Hahnemuhle paper. He was the former Professor of Printmaking at the University of Middlesex, where he taught from 1980. His work is represented in the UK Government Art Collection, Paul Allen’s Vulcan. Foundation, the Krakow Museum of Contemporary Art (Poland), and many significant private collections.

Provenance:

Direct from the Artist's studio