Tai-Shan Schierenberg
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Tai-Shan Schierenberg (born 1962) makes his living as a painter. He paints various subjects, but his interests are in painting the human figure, and in particular the head and face has been his principal preoccupation since he graduated from Slade School of Art in 1987. He had a one-man show at Flowers East in Hackney.
[edit] Awards and Recognition
In 1989 he won first prize in the National Portrait Gallery's John Player Portrait Award, and as part of the prize, was commissioned to paint the portrait of playwright John Mortimer for the Gallery's collection. The National Portrait Gallery also holds his portraits of Lord Carrington from 1994, Lord Sainsbury 2002 and most recently Seamus Heaney from 2004.
[edit] Life History
Schierenberg was born in England to a German father and a Chinese mother, and he described himself as having led a complex childhood. After nearly a year he was sent to Malaysia to live with his Chinese grandparents. Chinese became his mother tongue. At aged four however,Schienrenberg returned to north London where he had to readjust to a bohemian lifestyle. For six years he stayed in London forgetting his Chinese and attaining a Cockney accent. Schierenberg then went traveling with his parents through Europe and Turkey. When the family's money ran out they moved to Schierenbergs' father's home town in Germany where he stayed until his late teens. At this point, Schierenberg moved back to London where he has remained since. He studied at the Slade School of Art from 1981 to 1987.[1]
