George Shaw: I woz ere has proved to be the Herbert's most successful contemporary art exhibition ever. A phenomenal 17,000 people have seen the stark yet beautiful humbrol landscapes of Tile Hill, the estate Shaw grew up on. The exhibition opened on 17 November 2011 when 2000 people packed into the covered court to see George Shaw open the exhibition himself. 

These images look back to an existence that Shaw left behind long ago; each of the paintings acting as a tombstone for a moment that's past. Having painted the same small area for the last 15 years, he has recently come to see the totality of his art as a single painting. 

The exhibition is a retrospective of Shaw's work. Concerned with leaving a mark and a static memory in an ever-changing environment, the exhibition will look to the past and explore how the places Shaw has painted for the last 15 years have become new and alien to their old world.