Chris Shaw "Weeds of Wallasey"

Dates: October 2 (Wed) — October 12 (Sat), 2013

Wallasey is my hometown in the north-west of england on the wirral a peninsular between liverpool and north wales. Weeds as a metaphor for my roots.

Most of these photographs were taken between 2007-2012 in the local docklands where I grew up,this area is now the subject of a multi-million pound development by peel holdings and a chinese consortium. I hope I have documented its wildness in the ongoing battle between nature and man.

The weeds are always there growing!

ーChris Shaw

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Artist Profile

Chris SHAW

Chris Shaw completed his degree in Audio Visual studies at West Surrey College of Art & Design (now University for the Creative Arts) from 1986–89. In his 2006 monograph “Life as a Night Porter” (Twin Palms, 2006), Shaw published photographs of strange events he witnessed over a ten-year period between 1993 to 2004 whilst working as a night porter at a few hotels in London. His other books include “Before and After Night Porter” (Kehrer, 2012), “Weeds of Wallasey” (Superlabo, 2013), “Horizon Icon” (Adad, 2015), “Retrospecting Sandy Hill” (Morel Books, 2015), “Tokyo in Hong Kong” (Zen Foto Gallery, 2018), and “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game” (Zen Foto Gallery, 2019).

Chris is represented in public collections of The Tate in London, Frac Des Pays de la Loire in Nantes and Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg. Chris held his first solo show in Cafe Tabac in Bold Street, Liverpool in 1991. Since then he has held numerous exhibitions in Paris, London, Stockholm, Moscow, Beijing and Tokyo.