Danielle Metcalfe-Shaw

Danielle Metcalfe-Shaw is an Artist from Newcastle, England. Works and lives in Glasgow, with a studio based at Dornoch Street Studios. She studied her BA in Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2018.

This year she was awarded the Edwin John Easydorchik travelling scholarship by North Tyneside Community Foundation; The Glasgow Visual Artist and Craft Maker award by Creative Scotland; and awarded her first solo show 'No Prospects, Bright Future' by Saltspace, Glasgow. Danielle has Exhibited in London, Glasgow, Inverness, and Newcastle. In 2021 her work was featured in her first publication with The Alchemy Experiment called 'Love & Chaos' and featured again 2022 with their publication called 'It'll Be Alright'.

Danielle Metcalfe-Shaw’s work derives from memories, art history and contemporary life. Life sized moments and the subjects which present themselves in the works, are the driving force to her practice. The Artist has always had a keen eye for portraiture, her current work has found a love for large flat plane shapes of colour – Now colourful, symbolic and compositional interior elements are the driving force of the painted image, but the complex interweaving of figures remains a common thread. ...

2020

International Academic Projects
London
Certificate of Higher Education:
Chemistry for Conservators

2018

The Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow
Bachelor of Arts: BA Painting and
Printmaking (Hons)

Solo Shows:

2023
No Prospects, Bright Future, Salt Space Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.

Selected Group Shows:

2023
It’ll Be Alright, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, Scotland.

2022
North East Art Showcase, The Cluny, Newcastle Upon-Tyne, England.

2021
Love and Chaos, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, Scotland.

2020
Above The Belt, Circus Art Space Gallery, Inverness, Scotland.

2019 Finger WORK, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland.

2019
Shimmer Art Festival, Pulp Fiction, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.

2019
Open Studio’s, Dornoch St Project Space, Glasgow, Scotland.

2018
Speak To The World, Orbit UK Art Graduate Show, OXO Tower Wharf, London, England.

2018
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, Tontine Building, Glasgow, Scotland.

2017
Material Girl, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland.

2017
Series 3, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, Scotland.

2016
25% extra, The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland.

2016
Let’s Limbo, SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.

2016
Pat Tested, Grace & Clark Fyfe Gallery & The McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland.

2016
Painters in Progress, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland.

2015
A Final Show, Sq...