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A graffiti wall in Tile Hill Coventry done by local youngsters. Shows my father in law when he was boxing for a living!

The original painting by George Shaw facing towards Bushbery Avenue in Coventry had an orange / red sky which I have tried to replicate (unsuccessfully I must say) in this image.

George Shaw was a Turner Prize finalist in 2011, please do go and see his exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry, my photos do not do his paintings any justice at all.

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This is a photograph of the telephone kiosk painted by George Shaw the Turner Prize finalist in 2011. Please do go and see his exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry, my photos do not do his paintings any justice at all.

The Exhibition
George Shaw: I woz ere
18 November 2011 – 11 March 2012

For the past 15 years, recent Turner Prize nominee George Shaw has been making paintings of the Tile Hill housing estate where he grew up. Using Humbrol enamels, Shaw began making the works in a fit of nostalgia after he had left home and moved away. Over time, the paintings became a kind of ‘I woz ere’ written in retrospect.

For the first time, this collection of paintings is shown in the place they represent. Many viewers will recognise the specific pubs, street corners, rows of garages, trees and shops, but less familiar is the unsettling resonance that Shaw brings to the work.

Displayed alongside these landscapes is a new series of watercolours of previously painted places as they exist here and now. Accompanying the exhibition, Shaw also presents the works of art he made as a child in the early 1970s to the summer before he went to art school in 1985.

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Love heart in the sand on a beach in Batu Feringgi Penang Malaysia

An advertising style shot for Ilford black and white photography film. Shot with one studio light with softbox on half power above the subject. Camera f/22 with shutter speed of 1/100 second. Subject placed onto white card with reflectors left and right to prevent shadows on the front of the film box.