Born in 1966
Lives and Works in London, UK
Education
1989
BA Fine Art, Sheffield Polytechnic
1992
PGCE, Sheffield Polytechnic
1998
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
Solo Exhibitions
2011
I woz ere, The Herbert, Coventry, UK
The Sly and Unseen Day, The South London Gallery, London, UK
Payne’s Grey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (cat.)
The Sly and Unseen Day, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (cat.)
2010
Looking for Baz, Shaz, Gaz and Daz, VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland
2009
Woodsman, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
2008
The End of the World, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Landscape, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea
A Bucolic Frolic: Distractions from the Modern, Mummery & Schnelle, London, UK
2011
The Force of Nature, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
Edgelands – Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
There is a Place…, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
Turner Prize 2011, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (cat.)
Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
The World We Live In, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK
The Tyranny of Grammar, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
2010
The Witching Hour, curated by Matthew Collings and Matt Price, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Lust For Life & Dance of Death, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (cat.)
Without from Within, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK (cat.)
Crash, Homage to JG Ballard, Gagosian Gallery, London (cat.), UK
The Library of Babel: In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London (cat.), UK
The Future Demands Your Participation, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, British Council
Awards
2011
Turner Prize nominee
1999
John Moores 21, Prizewinner
1998
TI Group Award
1997
Messier-Dowty Travel Award to Paris, Zurich and New York
Project
2012
John Moores Jury, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2011
Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World, curated by George Shaw, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
HITE Collection 