Hermione Shaw
Hermione Shaw (B.1998) is an artist living and working in South East London. She makes oil paintings, mostly large ‘to life’ scale. She received a first class BFA from Goldsmiths University in 2020 and won the painter’s prize for her graduating year. She has shown paintings in various group shows in London and has had one solo show at Cuckoo Gallery in Margate. Hermione’s painting practice is an excavation of personal history and subconscious attachments to experiences or objects evoking pain, loss, love, infatuation and friendship. The paintings provide a fleeting conclusion to internal chaos. She resists the idea of a painting existing as a contained composition. The work doesn’t resolve itself within the confines of the canvas; its borders must imply extension. Hermione draws from works of cinema, literature and video art; namely for their ability to immerse their viewer and build worlds. She gravitates to the works of Mark Leckey and Ed Atkins and David Lynch – though her chosen medium of paint is integral to the way she works. She is gripped by the potentiality and magic of pigment – feeling bound by the way painting is able to transform and augment her ideas in real-time.
Hermione Shaw (B.1998) is an artist living and working in South East London. She makes oil paintings, mostly large ‘to life’ scale. She received a first class BFA from Goldsmiths University in 2020 and won the painter’s prize for her graduating year. She has shown paintings in various group shows in London and has had one solo show at Cuckoo Gallery in Margate. Hermione’s painting practice is an excavation of personal history and subconscious attachments to experiences or objects evoking pain, loss, love, infatuation and friendship. The paintings provide a fleeting conclusion to internal chaos. She resists the idea of a painting existing as a contained composition. The work doesn’t resolve itself within the confines of the canvas; its borders must imply extension. Hermione draws from works of cinema, literature and video art; namely for their ability to immerse their viewer and build worlds. She gravitates to the works of Mark Leckey and Ed Atkins and David Lynch – though her chosen medium of paint is integral to the way she works. She is gripped by the potentiality and magic of pigment – feeling bound by the way painting is able to transform and augment her ideas in real-time.
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