Becky Shaw is an artist, researcher and Professor in Fine Art Practice at Birmingham City University. She makes collaborative artworks with communities that examine how we connect with infrastructure. This often results in multi-media performances, including new instruments, objects and print, for public spaces and exhibitions.
The work involves long multi-disciplinary STEAM collaborations including (for example) with social scientists, engineers, medical specialists and education researchers. Current examples include a three year collaboration with social scientists, architects and historians to explore home heating change, and a three year partnership with Manchester Art Gallery to explore how very young children’s bodily interaction can enable innovative exhibition-making.
Artworks have been commissioned by organisations including City of Calgary Water Services, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, Age Concern, Guys and St Thomas Hospital and with arts organisations including Hayward Gallery, Walsall Art Gallery, Sainsbury Centre, Amstelveen Art Incentive Prize and Ar/Ge Kunst Bolzano.