James Shaw
United Kingdom
James Shaw is a London-based designer who makes objects and furniture. His work aims to bring out the inherent beauty of diverse materials, often uniting or contrasting handmade and tactile qualities with the structured and systematised. Frequently his work considers the resources around us, challenging the notions of “waste” and “value”. He is probably best known for his work with recycled plastics, and his self-built extruding gun, which produces blobby, gloopy and baroque forms, creating objects of unexpected beauty from a problematic material. Shaw’s work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, The V&A, MAK Vienna, The Montreal Museum of Art, Design Museum Ghent and The Museum of London, among others.
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