
Shana is a Artist and illustrator. Her multidisciplinary approach explores layered narratives, searching marks and textural colours to summon a unmoored sense of place and wonder in her work.
She explores with the process of drawing and visual language as a means of learning, carefully selecting and transforming observed particularities about real locations, objects from history and human narratives in order to create doorways into fabricated worlds of enquiry.
Education
2013 – 2017 London College of Communication
2021 – 2022 Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School
2023- 2024 Waseda University (Center for Japanese Langauge)
Exhibitions
2023 Selected piece from Royal Collection as part of a Special Exhbition celebrating Coronation of King Charles III, London, UK
2022 Art Verona in collaboration with its freezing in LA, Commissioned to produce 100 drawings in response to Italo Calvino’s ‘ La Nube de Smog’.
2022 The Royal Drawing School, The Drawing Year 2021 End of Year Exhibition, London, UK
2022 Best of the Drawing Year at Christie's , London, UK
2019 British Book Design and Production Awards 'The Elephant's Secret Kitchen’, London, UK
2018 Topolski Chronicle - 'Institutions' , London, UK
2018 'Prowler', Loop De Loop, Animation Screening, London- UK, Sydney- Australia and Berlin- Germany
2018 'Forty by Forty', GX Gallery, London, UK
2017 Stanley Kubrick Archive: '200I: a Space Odessey'., London, UK
2017 'Uncertainty Playground', London Design Festival, University of the Arts, London, UK
2017 'Flock', GX Gallery, London, UK
2015 ‘Monsters of Misawa’, Yamagata-shi, Japan ︎VIEW HERE
Awards
2015 2nd Place Winner for 'Emil and the Detectives', Penguin Student Book Design Awards, Penguin Random House, London, UK
2023 Daiwa Scholarship by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Residencies
2018 Topolski Chronicle Residency , London, UK ︎VIEW HERE
2022 The Moritz Heyman Artist residency at Borgo Pignano, Italy
Fairs and workshops
2018| Arts-craft-zine-fair at Raw Labs, London, UK
2018| ‘Brixton Reportage' and 'Folklore Parade', Hong Kong Zine & Print Exhibition, Hong Kong
2015| ‘Monster Parade', Tokyo Art Book Fair ,Tokyo, Japan
2011| The Big Draw, British Museum, Public engagment workshop to Encounrage drawing in museum spaces.
Illustration clients inlcude:
Ancestry UK, It’s Freezing in L.A, Daiwa Foundation, The London Transport Museum, Akaoni Design, Penguin Random House, University of the Arts.