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The joy of George Shaw’s miserable paintings of a Coventry council estate

30 March 2019

9:00 AM

30 March 2019

9:00 AM

All good narrative painting contains an element of allegory, but most artists don’t go looking for it on a Coventry council estate — unless, that is, they happen to come from there.

Since starting his Scenes from the Passion series while at the Royal College in the 1990s, George Shaw has been painting the Tile Hill estate where he grew up.

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