Bio

Shannon Louise Barry is a Canadian-South African interdisciplinary visual artist, writer, and cryptid. Her art and writing attempt 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 ecology and the unsettling and marvellous in nature.

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Shannon served as the Program Coordinator for the 2024 Hat Photo Festival: Roots and Resilience visual arts festival in Medicine Hat, AB. Her visual artwork has been twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology by magazine publishers. Her writing has been published in places such as filling Station, EVENT poetry and prose, New Forum Magazine, and FreeFall Magazine, among others. 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 represented by galleries including the Quenten Doolittle Memorial Gallery and The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, as well as several print publications including the covers of Existere - Journal of Arts & Literature and The Feminist Word. Shannon is a current PhD Candidate at the University of Exeter, and her academic and creative interests often overlap in her research on the surrealist movement and ecology.