STUART Edward
SHEARER Artist
Stuart is interested in understanding the relationship between lived experience
and creative activity. His practice of drawing whilst moving through the landscape,
whether in a car or on foot, allows him to simultaneously become observer and
the observed: both subject and object of study. Furthermore, the embodied
experience of drawing in locomotion makes the artist acutely aware of the active
part that the environment can play within the creative process. Whilst living this
experience the artist, media and environment enter into a dynamic relationship
where the act of drawing becomes a spontaneous, improvised dance with the
world: the world in which and with which we live.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Solo:
2022 'Recent Drawings' - The Old Workshop Gallery, Corpusty, Norfolk, UK
2015 'Transient' - St Nicholas Church, Salthouse, Norfolk, UK
2007 'Vir Domesticus Sublimis' - Habitat, Norwich, UK
2006 'A Sublime Phallacy' - The Granary, Norwich, UK
1999 Artist in Residence - Round Tower Gallery, Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus
1996 Permanent Installation - Pfizers Pharmaceuticals, Sandwich, Kent, UK
Joint:
2008 Horace Blue Gallery: 'Object and Image' (with Simon Wright), Norwich, UK
2005 The Cut Arts Centre: 'New paintings' (with R. Greenhalgh), Halesworth, UK
Group:
2021 The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral: Norwich 20 'Horizons', Norwich, UK
2019 The Undercroft: 'Metamorphosis', Norwich, UK
2018 Cley 18: 'Ambulatory Drawing - Salthouse to Cley-next-the-Sea', Norfolk, UK
2017 Cley 17: 'Ambulatory Drawing', Norfolk, UK
2016 The Undercroft: 'Nevermind The ... It's the Norwich 20 Group', Norwich, UK
2015 Open Studios: The Crooked Rose, Aylsham, Norfolk, UK
2011 Theatre Royal: 'Norwich 20 Group - Works on Paper', Norwich, UK
2010 Salthouse 10: 'Time and Motion', Norfolk, UK
2008 Galerija Vojvodanske banke: 'Gruppa 20', Novi Sad, Serbia
2008 Halle aux Toiles: '50 Artistes d’Aujourd’hui', Rouen, France
2007 Bally Shoe Factory: 'Art Sans Frontiers II', Norwich, UK
2006 Salthouse 06: Interregnum, Norfolk, UK
2005 Fringe at the Factory: 'Four Room Installation', Norwich, UK
2004 Fringe at the Factory: 'Eccentric Term', Norwich, UK
Competitions:
2007 Celeste Art Prize (Exhibition Catalogue) - Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
1995 Unipart Reflections of Technology Awards - Paddington Station, London, UK
Collections:
Pfizer, UK
Private collections in the UK, Cyprus and Malaysia
MEMBERSHIPS and VOLUNTARY WORK:
Norwich 20 Group - 2006 to present
North Norfolk Exhibition Project - committee member 2006-10
EDUCATION:
Institute of Education, University of London (now UCL):
MA Art & Design in Education (with distinction) 2006
PGCE Art & Design (secondary) 1998
Canterbury College of Art (now University of the Creative Arts):
BA (Hon) Fine Art (1st class) 1996
Cyprus College of Art: 6 week placement May-July 1995
