Sculptor in wood and paper, painter and teacher, born in Liverpool. He attended evening classes at the city’s College of Art while he was still at school. Shields emigrated to Canada in 1964 and it was there that he took up his education again to enable him to study full-time at Ontario College of Art until 1973 and his return to Britain, concentrating on sculpture. He gained the Art Directors’ Club of Toronto Award for Sculpture for Time magazine advertisements and the Governor General of Ontario’s Medal for Sculpture in his final year at college. In Britain Shields began to teach, but worked at his abstract wooden and paper sculptures and paintings and had solo shows at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, and Third Eye Centre. Was included in The Compass Contribution at Tramway, Glasgow, 1990.