Tim A Shaw is a practicing artist and his work has been exhibited in the UK, Europe and USA. He is a co-founder of arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms; co-founder of Making Time Arts, a social enterprise that delivers arts training to dementia caregivers; and programmes and co- curates the Dentons Art Prize, an arts award for exceptional emerging talent, now in it’s 11th round. He has led practical arts training sessions for professional artists in a number of countries, and has managed complex art installations for clients including Qatar Museum Authority, London Design Festival and Ayyam Gallery. He has been a curator on a number of projects including the public sculptures commissions for Horizon 120 in Braintree. He authored a book, Draw & Be Happy, published by Chronicle Books, Quarto, Ilex and Octopus, which was translated into multiple languages and was sold in bookshops and museum shops around the world. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts.