Still Life With Glue Bottle

Shaw has referred to himself as the absent arranger, creating pieces that speculate on a presence — whether imagined, real, or auto-biographical — through elegant collisions of objects. The twist is that these assemblages are trompe-l’oeil objects, painstakingly realised through a process of casting in porcelain, glaze highlights and precise overglaze transfer decals. The still life arrangement takes on a poetic rigidity through process, the discarded nature of the objects amassing a larger narrative that reveals deeper habit or obsession.