Tim Shaw RA (born 1964) is a Belfast-born sculptor and contemporary visual artist working in Cornwall UK.

[3] From 2000 to 2004, Shaw was also working on a commission from The Eden Project for an installation that would span the entire vine exhibit in the Mediterranean Biome.

These fears were seen to have some foundations when Shaw's 2007 version of the figure, a three-metre high, "naked, portly, and proudly erect"[5] rendering of Silenus, was attacked during its exhibition in a Vyner Street gallery in London's East End by a man wielding an iron bar, shouting "You're worshiping the wrong God!".

The main works he produced during this 2006 to 2008 residency were Man on Fire: What God of Love Inspires Such Hate in the Hearts of Men, Tank on Fire (awarded the selectors' choice Threadneedle prize in 2008),[9] and the multi-sensory installation Casting a Dark Democracy – Shaw's haunting response to the now infamous image of the Abu Ghraib prisoner, described as "one of too few works to engage unequivocally with the reality and human cost of the Iraq war.

"[10] A bronze cast of Man on Fire was installed outside the Imperial War Museum North, and received the 2024 Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture.