Nº83: Corbin Shaw
The London-based artist talks pancakes with gravy, YouTube and the creative process.
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Corbin Shaw, 26, Artist. Sheffield, now London. Van owner. 5ft 8”. 8UK.
☞ THE SUN: haha when i’ve pinched it for my work, or just the general sludge of the algorithm.
☞MOVIE: Kes by Ken Loach
☞ PHOTO BOOK: Doug Dubois My Last Days at Seventeen
☞ FAVOURITE SPOT: Westfield Stratford
☞ OPINION: Booking has killed spontaneity.
☞ DESTINATION: Gloucester services or Dungeness.
☞ PRODUCTS:
☞ RECIPE: Pancakes with gravy
☞ ADVICE: Just be passionate, and obsessive over the things you love. It's cool to geek out over stuff.
☞ LINKS TO VIDS I LIKE: Ngl I just love youtube. I think since I can remember owning a computer i’ve been on youtube mining away an identity.
☞ PODCAST: Past Present Future by David Runciman
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☠ HATES: I saw a quote the other day at an exhibition of magazine work from the 90s that said something like ‘nothing we made at this time was a reference to or derived from anything’, which is bullshit - because everything is a reference. Really we are all just reinterpreting what has come before and there shouldn’t be shame in that. This call out culture is so sad because it ends up putting a road block in the way so often because people are so scared to be pulled up for anything. Jonathan Anderson spoke really well on this in an interview I watched recently, saying that if you look at painters throughout history, they would have been learning from the old masters, they would have been doing interpretations of Goya or say Rembrant and in this process of learning they would have created their own style, it’s all interesting because people are just trying to rediscover themselves through the creative process that they love, even without knowing it, all creativity starts with interpretation. I also try to live by the idea that everyone’s just trying - our generation has a tendency to be cruel until something is cool enough and I wish we could support each other more. So I hate that.
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love corbin shaw, think his work is provocative, gritty, and digs its nails into nostalgic dreams of those who grew up in england,
but he also extracts and smudges issues right into the face of the onlooker. his work using the st george’s cross as a canvas to paste issues surrounding the epidemics that plague this country is unique, simple and striking. i’ve actually done a piece on the union jack and the switch to the st george’s cross in sport and how people like corbin are using the flag with stereotypical connotations, to shift perspectives around england.
a serious consumer of culture. brilliant insight into his process, love love love <3!
Corbin Shaw has got under the bones of English / British identity, where few, I think, dare to go, believing complexity and esotericism create validity in the work (they don't). I appreciate his take re: originality. We are endlessly repeating everything. Enjoy being part of the collective unconscious, there is no escaping it!