Arts
Council Collection Artists
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Table Top Still Life (1990)
Neil Shawcross (b.1940, Kearseley, Co. Lancashire)
Mixed Media
H: 137, W:91.5 cms
Neil Shawcross attended Bolton College of Art from 1955-58 and Lancaster College of art from 1958-60. He came to Belfast in 1962 as a part-time lecturer at the College of Art. Shawcross embodies a gentle and childlike approach in his work which renders his work distinctive and has won him many admirers. He is well-known for his portraits which include a portrait of the writer Francis Stuart for the Ulster Museum and a portrait of Alderman David Cook for Belfast City Council. Shawcross has designed stained glass for the Ulster Museum and for St Colman’s Church, Lambeg. He is active in teaching art to children. Shawcross has had one-person shows in Bolton, London, Manchester and Dublin and in the Tom Caldwell Gallery in Belfast.
