4th Mar 2019 — Becky Shaw Appointed SWA’s…

Becky Shaw Appointed SWA’s Artist-in-Residence

British artist and academic Becky Shaw has been selected from over 150 applicants for SWA’s artist-in-residence programme, established as part of a series of events marking our 25thanniversary (‘SWA25’).  The final work produced will be presented in an exhibition in October.

On the appointment, Shaw says “I am delighted to be given the opportunity to be artist in residence at SWA and am keen to explore how the practice and the people within it work to produce types of social, emotional, and physical warmth and comfort, whist negotiating complex social, material and political terrains.”  Shaw will be developing a series of speculative works that seek to maintain a sensation of liveness and open-endedness within the exhibition.

Sarah Wigglesworth explains “We were immediately impressed with Becky’s poetic approach to what is traditionally considered as the purely practical. For example we loved her recent work exploring the emotional attachment of the citizens of Calgary to their water infrastructure which included a child-size version of an industrial leak location tool. We are excited to be hosting Becky in our office over the coming three months and fascinated to see the results.”

In addition to working for the next three months at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects on Stock Orchard Street, Shaw is also currently working on an interdisciplinary project exploring the construction of ‘oddness’ and difference in school. She completed a practice-based PhD in 1998, working with Marie Curie Cancer Care and is Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.

Becky will be writing monthly blog entries on our Journal. March’s blog can be read here.

© Becky Shaw 'How Deep is Your Love?'