About

Phil Shaw is an award-winning British artist, famous for his conceptually subversive and technically daring images of bookshelves.

This December the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will launch Shaw’s latest publication – Once Upon A Time - a box-set of eight pictorial short-stories artfully constructed by Shaw from the book-titles of one thousand other authors. It is a bravura achievement: brilliant, compelling, surreal, witty, and visually stunning.

These narrative pieces were originally conceived and created as life-size hyper-realistic bookshelf prints, and as such have been widely acclaimed …