London-based Tai Shan Schierenberg (b 1962) has an acclaimed practice featuring portraiture and landscape alongside reflective works exploring memory, identity and belonging. He is renowned for his paintings of the human figure and for his close analysis of the head and face through broad gestural brushstrokes, describing his work as operating "between different modes of reproducing reality", navigating a perceptual dividing line between surface and representation.
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.