ADRIAN SHAW Profile
A professional artist and educator, with science and media training
A graduate in Fine Art from Central St. Martin’s College, London Institute. He also trained at Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada. He is registered with Southern Arts as an artist-for-schools. In this latter regard, he has a Certificate in Mentoring and has been involved with INSET programmes for secondary school art teachers. He is a founder-member of London New Expressionists. An honours graduate of Central St. Martin’s College, London Institute. Adrian has also obtained training in Advanced Studio Work and Curatorship at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada (he has dual UK-Canadian citizenship).
Adrian has also been a Greater London writer-in-schools and project officer, and a poet with both Ottawa and Hounslow Arts. In keeping with his broad range of interests and experience, and his mixed culture (Anglo-Indian). Adrian has designed, developed and marketed courses in ‘Science-Art: the Overlap’, and ‘Light, Memory and Identity: the role of the Hybrid in Fine Art’ (BA thesis, Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design, London Institute, 2001). He has taught Advanced-level art and further and higher education courses – including Access/Foundation studies at Tower Hamlets University Summer School in East London. He has also taught Political and East European studies at Morley College, London, and Sciences/Chemistry elsewhere. His artistic practice investigates and applies mixed-media and photographic based methods and techniques to painting, as well as assemblage, installation and collage. He is also interested in film and video, and IT applications.
TRAINING
BSc (Jt Hons.), MSc, DIC, PhD, (Birkbeck & Imperial, L.U, 1972, 1977-82).
Post. Grad. Cert. Education in FHE (Distinction: Garnett College, Roehampton, 1985).
City & Guilds Photography Certs. (Distinction & Credit: Kingsway College, 1994).
BTEC Foundation Dip., in Fine Arts. (Distinction & Credit: ibid, 1996).
Foundation Media Studies, (Distinction: London Coll. of Printing & Distributive Trades: The London Institute, 1996).
B.A. Hons. Fine Art (Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design, L.I., 2001).
Introduction to Mentoring Cert. (Haringey Arts & AAG, 2002).
OTHER
Full driving licence. Languages: French & Spanish
Studio: Opus Studios, Unit B3, Oldknows Factory,
St Ann’s Hill Road, Nottingham NG3 4GQ
AWARDS & BURSARIES:
ArtQuest/Outrage
Arvon Foundation Creative Writer’s Bursary
Environmental Media Writing, Schumacher College, Dartington
Artist & Writer-in-Schools, Hounslow, Slough (Greater London Arts & ACE, Arts Council England), Haringey-Collage Arts, London
SCIENCE STUDIES FUNDING, ONC, BSc, The Wellcome Research Foundation, Chemical Research & Study Awards, MSc, PhD, NSERC UK, & PDF, NRC Canada
CNAA for PGCE, Garnett College, Middx.
Mary Ward Settlement Painting Exhibition 3rd Place, National Inst. for Soc. Work, 1998
Winning Artist, WorkSpace Commission 2005, Chocolate Factory, Wood Green, N22
BA studies – UK Govt (DHSS) & Socrates Exchange (St Martin’s, London & NSCAD)
Creative Practitioner Partnerships Funding with ‘Wise Thoughts-ACE’, Wood Green, CRE & Sheeran Lock, London
(‘Young Brits@Art’ Workshops), Ignite-ACE, E.Mids
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Royal College of Science
The Royal Society of Chemistry (C.Chem)
Design & Artists Copyright Society
inIVA
S/SE Arts
NAWE, ArtScape
Nottingham Creative Network
CLIENTS:
NUAAW
Arts Council England,
Nottingham Trent University
PUBLICATIONS:
Some Proposals for Improving the Sandwich Placement Experiential Programme in Biosciences at Nottingham Trent University, (Consultancy Report,School of Biomedical & Natural Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, July 2007).
Light, Memory & Identity, Pertinent to the Hybrid/Other in Modernist & Post-Modernist Fine Art Theory & Practice, (BA Thesis, Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London, June 2001).
A Study of Post-Colonial, Modern & Post-Modern Theory & Practice of Painting & Mixed-Media in Canada, with Particular Reference to Nova Scotia, (BA Erasmus Exchange Placement Special Project Report, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1999).
L’eau quality?: Water pollution threat to human existence, (Back Hill Bytes, part-time Media Foundation Studies Report, 1995-6, London College of Printing, London Institute) .
Southern African Students at Tottenham College, (NATFHE Journal, May-June 1989, pp. 27-28).
Southern African Students at Tottenham, (Liberal Education, Issue 63, June-Sept. 1989, pp. 16-19).
The Teaching of Environmental & Occupational Health Science in the Further & Higher Education Sectors, and in regard to Social, Political & Economic Factors, (PGCE Thesis, Garnett College, 1985).
Mycotoxin Analysis in Rapeseed/‘Canola’, (PDF In-House Research Paper, Laboratory Services Division, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, 1983).
The Heavy Atom Effect in the Room Temperature Luminescence of Some Pesticides & Ecologically Related Compounds, (Canadian Journal of Spectroscopy, vol.28, No.3, pp.100-103, 1983).
Luminescence Studies of Some Pesticides & Other related Compounds of Ecological Interest, (PhD Thesis, Imperial College, University of London, 1982).
Analytical Chemistry & The Law, (MSc/DIC Dissertation, Imperial College, University of London, 1977).
REFERENCES: supplied on request