PAST EXHIBITIONS
ANTHONY SHAW COLLECTION
at YORK CITY ART GALLERY
CHILDREN CURATE
curated by 28 Year Six Children from Burton Green Primary
to 30 November 2023
ARTIST'S CHOICE
curated by Per Inge Bjørlo
to 31 March 2019
SARA RADSTONE
More Than Words
to 10 June 2018
CURATOR'S CHOICE
curated by Tessa Peters
to 19 February 2018
NEW SELECTION
curated by Anthony Shaw
to 6 November 2016
BILLING PLACE
Final Selection at Billing Place
by over thirty selectors
...things counter, original, spare, strange
selected by Mel Gooding
Collector's View
selected by John Christian
Press release
Five Lives with Clay
Gordon Baldwin, Ewen Henderson, Gillian Lowndes, Bryan Illsley, Sara Radstone
selected by Anthony Shaw
Press release
The Collection with a View
selected by Anthony Shaw
Press release
The Work of Bryan Illsley
selected by Stella Benjamin
Press release
CURATOR'S CHOICE
selected by Amanda Fielding
Press release
Gordon Baldwin - A Celebration
selected by Anthony Shaw
Press release
TRUSTEE'S CHOICE II
selected by Tatjana Marsden
Press release
POET'S CHOICE
selected by Christopher Reid
Press release
FRIEND'S CHOICE
selected by Anita Besson
Press release
TRUSTEE'S CHOICE
selected by David Whiting
Press release
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
ANTHONY SHAW COLLECTION YORK
SEEING WITH ANOTHER EYE
curated by Anthony Shaw
to April 2025
The Trustees of The Anthony Shaw Collection have great pleasure in announcing the new display at York Art Gallery, curated by Anthony Shaw.
I was very lucky to experience many cultures when I was young.
Foreign travel, always visiting ruin remains, museums, churches and everyday markets.
Early interest in ceramics, picking up pot shards, scattered across Roman sites. Clay once fired remains unchanged. Picking it up takes you back to the moment it is taken out of the kiln or fire. You feel it as the makers did, however many thousands of years before.
I started looking in the early 60’s, a very fertile time for studio ceramics. I was starting my career, making clothes, and all my money went to my collection of textiles to use. My first purchase was in 1973 and then I quickly started to collect and show ceramics, first clearing my workshop in 1975, for an exhibition of four potters. It was a success and led to displays in my workshop windows from 1976-1981. I stopped because there was no one I wanted to show.
I was growing tired of pots, and I would have stopped collecting but for Gordon Baldwin and Ewen Henderson. I met both in 1976 and they changed my view of the work that really moved me.
I have only found out more recently what was driving me to make choices. I was always buying instinctively, without questioning why. I continue to try and let instincts lead my response, rather than following a formulaic path. I can now see that I am looking for artists who have tuned into an open-ended waveband. Mostly they have to make the work. It drives them, helping to find themselves, always asking questions. I call it ‘otherness’ and the nature of feelings. The answers are not important because they then produce endings. I like work that continues to give life, vigor and an ever-expanding dialogue.
It is not about how something looks. If it suggests it was envisioned before it was made it no longer has a questioning nature and has learnt very little in the making. Therefore it is important that the artist doesn’t fully understand what they are making and trying to say. Choosing an artist to follow is the most important aspect of making a collection. I am drawn to art that sees beyond the present and opens our feelings for the future.
image: Seeing with Another eye, exhibition view, 2023
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