Greg Shaw - Zimbabwean Visual Artist/Teacher
Channel: Story Untold ZW🇿🇼
Date: 2023-09-09

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Greg Shaw was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, where he lives and works. He holds a National Diploma in Graphic Art and Design from Harare Polytechnic and a BA cum laude in Art History and Music in History and Society from the University of South Africa (UNISA). 

His body of work ranges from digital drawings to large scale works incorporating traditional and non-traditional media. Whilst personal themes such as a the confrontation with cancer and a violent assaulted have punctuated his practice, he is predominately concerned with the structures that create and condition these experiences; the socio-political dimensions of his native Zimbabwe and his relationship to the complex concept of “land”. 

Shaw has exhibited consistently in Zimbabwe, as well as in South Africa and Europe. Exhibitions include Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era, Zeitz MOCAA (South Africa: 2018) FNB Joburg Art Fair, (South Africa: 2018), Munich Contempo International Art Fair, (Germany: 2011). He has presented five solo exhibitions at Gallery Delta, Harare (Zimbabwe). His works are included in the Permanent Collection of The National Gallery of Zimbabwe and the Municipality of Stavroupoli, Thessalonkik (Greece). He is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee (2007), and NAMA recipient (2019). He is the Head of Art and Design at the Hellenic Academy, Harare.

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Timestamps
Intro 0:00
Formal education experience 0:39
Mentorship and Delta Gallery experience 3:43
Using different mediums of art 6:06
Deciding on which art to show at exhibitions 10:08
Grey Zones: first solo exhibition in 15 years 13:20
Do artists have an ability to see life in ordinary objects? 18:45
Teaching art 20:58
Learning new things 24:35
Incorporating technology into art 27:55
What do you want to see in Zimbabwe's art scene? 33:23
Challenges of being an artist in Zimbabwe 36:03

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