Adam Shield

Open Plan

Year 2018
Medium Ink, pastel and monoprint on paper
Dimensions 29.5 x 20.8 cm
Top pick Sir Richard Heaton KCB

About the work

Part of a series of collages that explore virtual spaces, symbolic objects and dystopian narratives. Open Plan represents a shape-shifting product demonstrator at some hallucinatory tech-expo.

Date and country of birth

1988, GB

About the artist

Born 1988 Newcastle Upon Tyne, Adam Shield lives and works in London. Graduated from Newcastle University (2007-2011), and the Royal Academy Schools (2014-2017).

Selected exhibitions include Dark Silo, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London (2020); Greetings, Mauve Gallery, Vienna (2019); Expo Dream Leech, Drawing Room, London (2019); IMAGE DRUM, Royal Academy of Art, London (2019); Terraforms, Kristian Day Gallery, Concept Space, London (2018); Chumming, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow International (2018); Hands Roots, Hawkins, London (2018); Drop Shot, Fetes College, Edinburgh (2017); Bearing Liability, Strange Cargo Gallery, Folkestone (2017); RA Schools Degree Show, Burlington House, London (2017); Premiums: Interim Projects, Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Art, London (2016); Let’s Get Inside Everything, Milma, London (2016); and RIFF, Baltic 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne (2014).