About Judith Shaw

I began my creative career as a starving artist.  Not in the sense that I was struggling to make ends meet.  Rather, I was literally starving myself - trying to get by on as little food as possible in an incessant quest for thinness. The drive to create sculpture came to me while in treatment for anorexia, a journey of recovery and discovery that uncovered my artistic voice.

My early work is made largely from cardboard boxes.  It doesn’t fit any recognized artistic genre.  The pieces grew to blend unexpected combinations of materials with unconventional techniques.  Driven by intense passion and personal necessity, I spill my guts - in images, visual narrative and forms.

Today, using a variety of found objects and ordinary, everyday items, I continue to use my artistic practice to create conceptual pieces that explore human turbulence, identity and selfhood.

My artwork started as a deeply private, emotional inquiry.  It seems the gutsier and more honest I get in my work, the more universally relevant it becomes.