Aiden Shaw

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Aiden Shaw
Aiden Shaw (Hercules Magazine, 2012)

Aiden Shaw (born 22 February 1966, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom) is an actor, musician, author, english teacher & model.

Early life

In Harrow, London, on the 22nd February 1966, Shaw was born into an Irish Catholic family, the sixth of seven children. At 14, in line with the fashions of the period (New Romantic, Punk, & Goth) he started to dress in an "alternative" way. At 16 he enrolled on a two-year Creative Arts foundation course at Nelson and Colne College. Then he spent two years at Manchester Youth Theatre. Afterwards he embarked on an Expressive Arts degree at the then Brighton Polytechnic (now University of Brighton), but after only a year he transferred to Harrow College of Higher Education to study Film, Television, Photography & Video. After leaving college he worked for a time directing and art-directing music videos for bands such as Peter Hook's (bass player of New Order) off-shoot project Dead Beat.

Literary work

In 1991, Shaw collaborated with the New York fine-artist Mark Beard to produce a limited edition publication named Aiden. However, it was not until 1996 that Shaw wrote his first novel, Brutal. Also in 1996, The Bad Press published a collection of his poems, If Language at the Same Time Shapes and Distorts our Ideas and Emotions, How do we Communicate Love?^[1] He wrote two more novels; Boundaries (1997) and Wasted (2001), and a book of life writing, My Undoing (2006). In 2007, Shaw completed an MA in Creative & LIfe Writing at Goldsmiths University of London, following which he completed a second book of life writing, Sordid Truths (2009).

Music

Shaw wrote and produced two albums of music, performing lead vocals on "Whatever" with his band of the same name. He also produced performance artist Nina Silvert on "Nina Silvert does Aiden Shaw".

Recent activity

In 2011, Shaw trained to become a qualified English teacher. He also modelled for GQ magazine in Berlin. It was in this publication that he was spotted by and signed to SUCCESS MODELS in Paris. He currently resides in Barcelona, where he is represented by SIGHT MANAGEMENT.

Published works

• Brutal (Millivres Books, 1996) ISBN 1-873741-24-3
• If Language at the Same Time Shapes and Distorts Our Ideas and Emotions, How Do We Communicate Love? (The Bad Press, 1996) ISBN 0-9517233-4-0
• Boundaries (Brighton: Millivres Prowler Group 1997) ISBN 1-873741-48-0
• Wasted (Brighton: Millivres Prowler Group, 2001) ISBN 1-902852-34-6
• My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006) ISBN 0-7867-1743-2
• Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom (Alyson Books, 2009) ISBN 1-59350-137-4

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