Tai Shan Schierenberg Four trees, Norfolk, 2025

London-based Tai Shan Schierenberg (b 1962) has an acclaimed practice featuring portraiture and landscape alongside reflective works exploring memory, identity, and belonging. He defines the constructed nature of his paintings as activating the experience of looking, allowing the mind to “recreate the image every time it is viewed.” 

Schierenberg's work is in public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London; Tate, London; Cambridge University; Merton College, Oxford; The Royal Society, London; The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University, Belfast; BBC England; Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; The Ruth Borchard Collection, London; and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.