Becky Shaw

Dr Becky Shaw is an artist and Professor in Fine Art Practice. She makes live, collaborative works that explore how individuals inhabit large social structures of 'public good' including healthcare, education, utilities and work. This artistic research process generates insights into institutions but also seeks to resist their weighty effect, and to reanimate possibilities for shared criticality. She is currently working with energy researchers to explore heating transition in Romania, Finland, Sweden and the UK and with cultures of childhood researchers to explore children's experiences of institutions. Both projects build on her exploration of time, and the way that the past, present and future are encountered. Through these interdisciplinarity projects she also examines the difficult, messy and remarkable process of working across disciplines, enabling reflection on the occupation of multiple roles. A belief, and joy in the value of working together motivates everything.