b. 1988, United Kingdom
Adam Shield (b. 1988, Newcastle Upon Tyne) lives and works in London. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools (2014-17) and BA Fine Art at Newcastle University (2007-11).
Selected recent exhibitions include BLAST BEAT, with Thomas Whittle as Long Distance Press (LDP), Priestman Gallery, Sunderland, 2021; Drawing Biennale, Drawing Room, London, 2021; Dark Silo, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London, 2020; A Very Long Wait, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, 2020; Greetings, LDP, Mauve Gallery, Vienna, 2019; Expo Dream Leech, Drawing Room, London, 2019; IMAGE DRUM, LDP, Royal Academy of Art, London, 2019; Terraforms, Kristian Day Gallery, London, 2018; Chumming, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow International, 2018; Hands Roots, Hawkins, London 2018; Drop Shot, LDP, Fetes College, Edinburgh, 2017; Bearing Liability, Strange Cargo Gallery, Folkestone, 2017; RA Schools Degree Show, Burlington House, London, 2017; Premiums: Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Art, London, 2016; Let’s Get Inside Everything, Milma, London, 2016; and RIFF, Baltic 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2014.
Shield has co-curated exhibitions including Greetings, Mauve Gallery, Vienna, 2019; Drop Shot, Monomatic, Edinburgh, 2018; Chumming, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow for Glasgow International 2018 and IMAGE DRUM at The Royal Academy of Art, London, 2019.
Since 2013 Shield has been co-running Long Distance Press (LDP) with artist Thomas Whittle. Working between Glasgow, Newcastle, London and Edinburgh, LDP started as a postal art project that quickly turned into collaborative works, publications and exhibitions. Through these Shield and Whittle continue to explore research, drawing and works on paper that often live at the unseen edges of an artists’ practice. LDP work closely with artists to produce new artworks, artist books and editions employing a range of processes, paper stock and binding methods to produce printed ephemera that is tactile, intentionally lo-fi and inky to touch. They have also shaped and delivered collaborative workshops for students at The University of Sunderland, The Bartlett School of Architecture – UCL, Fettes College, Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London.
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