Shannon Ward currently holds the Graduate Studio Space at Eagle Works. 

 

Shannon Ward (b.2003 in Shrewsbury) embeds love, tenderness and the celebration of family and friendship at the heart of her painting practice. In her large scale portraits in oil - drawn from family archives and studio-based photoshoots - memory and relationships are writ large, from the embrace of a sibling to the cradling of an infant. Interested in Tina Campt's argument around what constitutes a Black gaze, she seeks to be part of the dialogue around the complex positionality of blackness in Britain today through accomplished portraiture. 

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