Tim Shore Derbyshire, United Kingdom
I am a visual artist living in Derby, I work with moving image, site-specific installation, drawing and books. I'm interested in the histories and narratives of the marginal, ephemeral and overlooked, and how luck, chance and anxiety can be embodied in my work.
I've created film and installation work about; the writing, production and dissemination of the ‘Unabomber manifesto’; Charles Dickens’s ‘nightwalks’ through Clerkenwell in London; the lives of paupers living in the Workhouse, in Southwell, Nottinghamshire; and the hidden story behind the facade of 27 Queen Street, Derby, the former home of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal.
From 2016 to 2018 I took part in Document, a CVAN East Midlands project that documented the lives and creative practice of six East Midlands artists.
Since 2016 I've been making small edition artist books and exhibiting them at book fairs in the UK and internationally. In 2018 I exhibited work at the inaugural Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial in Sweden, and Exercise book, a hand-drawn artists’ book, was selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018. My exhibition Derby Mean Time opened at Pickford’s House, [Derby Museums] in September 2019.
Recently I've made work for two mail art projects: Claudia de la Torre’s BOOKS ARE BRIDGES project for backbonebooks, and Linda Parr’s Postcards for Perec project for the BABE21 'Lost Weekend' [17-18 April 2021].
Artwork
Your Order Number, Paper, 2021
Middle Bound, Mixed-media installation, 2018
Derby Mean Time, Mixed media, 2019
Luddite / Jigged drawing, Pencil and carbon copy on paper, 2014
Projects and exhibitions
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Books are Bridges11/03/2021 — ongoing A mail-art exhibition by Claudia de la Torre that explore how a book can function as a bridge that connects people, ideas, ways of circulation and collaboration. |
A-Z, Berlin | Details |
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Derby Mean Time14/09/2019 — 22/02/2020 A mixed-media exhibition that explored the legacy of John Flamsteed (1646 –1719), the first Astronomer Royal and his home in Derby, that included archive materials, animation, photography, sculpture and books. |
Pickford's House, Derby | Details |
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Rituals and Rites13/12/2018 — 17/01/2019 A group exhibition that explored new perspectives on how supernatural powers, part of the mythologies and folklore, of multiple cultures and cosmogonies, can be used today as a tool to examine “human nature”. |
Artcore Gallery, Derby | Details |
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On Being an Artist16/11/2018 — 06/12/2018 A group exhibition featuring the work of the six Document artists, a Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands project. |
Artcore Gallery, Derby | Details |
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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 201826/09/2018 — 17/10/2018 Annual open exhibition of drawing in the UK. |
Trinity Buoy Wharf, London | Details |
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Frankenstein 201814/05/2018 — 09/08/2018 A Liverpool Book Arts group exhibition that celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. |
Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool | Details |
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Middle Bound17/02/2018 — 11/03/2018 A site-specific installation by the artist Patrick Waterhouse and the graphic designer Tim Wan, with the support of curator Mauro Bedoni, ‘Exploring the Social Fabric at the Heart of England’ involving local artists and stories from the public into a narrative display. |
QUAD, Derby | Details |
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Finding Lines05/07/2017 — 03/09/2017 A group exhibition of drawing and mark-making. |
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby | Details |