Bio

Shannon is a Canadian-South African painter, writer and cryptid. Her art and writing attempts to capture the strange and wonderful represented by the spaces within reality and in dreamscapes. A child whose main hobby included digging holes, her research interests include eco-surrealism and the unsettling and marvellous in nature.

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Her academic and creative interests often overlap in her research. Her Masters dissertation inspected the intersection between ecology and the self in the surrealist movement in the face of the current climate crisis. Additionally, she completed her BA English Honours thesis on dreams and surrealism, accompanying her paper with a short story and a painting. Her writing has been published in places such as EVENT magazine, New Forum magazine, and Freefall magazine. Her artworks have been internationally represented in Canada, the United States, and Scotland. She was honoured as the official visual artist for the 2020 IGNITE! Festival of Emerging Artists, and has been in galleries including the Quenten Doolittle Memorial Gallery and The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, as well as several print publications. Shannon recently completed the MLitt in English Literature: Modernities at the University of Glasgow.