Norman Shaw
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
Selected Exhibitions
Hermit House (solo)
Summerhall, Edinburgh
2018
Shelter Stone – The Artist and the Mountain
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh / Mountain Bothy Association
2017/18
Between Places
Moray School of Art, Elgin
2014
Between the Late and the Early
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2013
Invocations
(curated)
Roseangle Gallery, Dundee
2013
Sounding Drawing
Lang Byre Gallery, Aberdeenshire
2012
Cheer Up! It's not the end of the world...
(curated)
Edinburgh Printmakers
2012
The Scottish Summer Exhibition
The Fleming Collection, London
2011
The Fire Part of Fire
Outbye Gallery, Pittenweem Arts Festival
2011
Alchemy Festival of Film & Moving Image
Hawick
2011
A Skye Hauntography
Resident 11, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2011
Nemeton
(curated)
The Rediscovery of Highland Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2010
Prints of Darkness
(curated)
Edinburgh Printmakers, toured internationally
2010
Opiate for the People
Sunbear Gallery, Edinburgh
2010
Heavy Metal Mouth
Torpichen Street Gallery, Edinburgh
2009
Eskimo
Eskmills Gallery, Musselburgh, Edinburgh
2008
Highland
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2007
No More Stars
Edinburgh College of Art
2007
You Do Voodoo
West Barns Gallery, Dunbar
2007
Infernal Methods
(solo)
Generator Art Space, Dundee
2006
Dr Skin
Perth Museum & Art Gallery
2005
Fieldnotes & Sketchbooks
Aberdeen Art Gallery
2005
Kaleidoscope
Contemporary Art Space, Osaka, Japan
2005
Blind Sight
(curated)
Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Art and Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland, toured internationally
2005
Fire and Brimstone
Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2004
Knights of the Holy Contact
Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
2003
An Leabhar Mor / The Great Book of Gaelic
An Lanntair, Stornoway, toured internationally
2002
Audio Alchemy
(curated)
Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Art
2001
Presence / Laithearachd
(solo)
An Lanntair, Stornoway
1996
Calanais
An Lanntair, Stornoway, toured internationally
1996
Selected Projects
Cheer Up! It’s not the end of the world…
Exhibition and publication, co-curated with Sarah-Manning Shaw, Edinburgh Printmakers, August – September 2012.
Presenting the work of selected international artists who explore ideas about the end of the world, apocalypse, finality, the death of thought, or related eschatological concerns.
Prints and other media by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gordon Cheung, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Ricky Allman, Martin Barrett, Etienne Clement, David Faithfull, Konstantin Kalinovich, Kris Kuksi, Lori Nix
Hard backed limited edition catalogue published by Edinburgh Printmakers with commissioned essays by Norman Shaw and Kevin Whitesides. ISBN 978-0-9541530-4-5.
Prints of Darkness
New commissions, exhibition, publication and tour. Funded by Scottish Arts Council and the Carnegie Trust, co-curated with Sarah-Manning Cordwell (Edinburgh Printmakers) and Edward Summerton (University of Dundee) for Edinburgh Printmakers.
Edinburgh Printmakers, 17 July – 04 September 2010;Matthew Gallery University of Dundee, 13 November - 11 December 2010; The Changing Room, Stirling, 12 May - 25 June 2011; Engramme, Quebec, Canada, 28 October – 11 December 2011; RhylLibrary Arts Centre, North Wales, 21 January - 25 February 2012; Pallant House Gallery; West Sussex, England, 21 August - 21 October 2012.
An investigation of the impact of record cover art on visual artists. Twelve artists were commissioned to produce one print in record-cover format as a response to the research theme. Artists: Andrew Cranston, Tommy Crooks, Malcy Duff, Duncan Marquiss, Lee O'Connor, Chris Orr, Norman Shaw, Edward Summerton, The Lonely Piper, Andy Wake, Mark Wallace, with Vicky Bennett, AKA People Like Us. Project included a related events programme including Instruments of Darkness - a night of iconoclastic music and performance programmed by the curators and featuring artists and their associates from the exhibition.
Included commissioned t-shirts and badges from each artist, a limited edition 12" picture vinyl record, housed in a boxed-set with fold-out poster and commissioned texts and artwork by Norman Shaw and text by Vicki Bennett. ISBN 978-0-9541530-2-1.
Nemeton
Artist Book (338 pages), published by Nemeton, 2010.An exploration of relationships between place, consciousness, and epistemologies, through a collaborative tour of selected sites around the Highlands of Scotland, resulting in interrogation of marginal and esoteric aspects of the contemporary Highland landscape. Essays and images by Norman Shaw, plus commissioned texts by Murdo Macdonald, The Lonely Piper, and Tommy Crooks, and images by Edward Summerton, Murdo Macdonald, Lee O’Connor and Tommy Crooks.
Produced for ‘Window to the West’ five-year research project, funded by AHRC and led by Prof Murdo Macdonald. ISBN 978-0-9568242-0-2
The book complemented the ‘Nemeton’ exhibition curated by Norman Shaw as part of the Window to the West exhibition ‘The Rediscovery of Highland Art’, curated by Arthur Watson and Murdo Macdonald (Nov 2010 to March 2011, City Art Centre, Edinburgh). The ‘Nemeton’ exhibition contained works by all of the artists involved in the ‘Nemeton’ project, including a video installation and drawings by Norman Shaw.
A Skye Hauntography
Exhibition of drawings exploring visual aspects of the hauntological landscapes of the Isle Skye.
An investigation of cleared village hauntings, and of relationships between folk etymologies of the Isle of Skye and the mythic landscapes of Ossian and HP Lovecraft.
Part of the ‘Resident 11’ exhibition (Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, October 2011). This work was produced ona Royal Scottish Academy Artists Research Residency at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye, funded by Scottish Arts Council, May - December 2010.