Shana is an 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 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 to create doorways into fabricated worlds of enquiry.
She is currently a recipient of the MEXT scholarship and a research student at the painting department at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Education
2013 – 2017 London College of Communication
2021 – 2022 Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School
2023- 2024 Waseda University (Centre for Japanese Language)
Exhibitions
2025 ‘Macrocosmos’ (マクロコスモス) drawing exhibition, Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan
2024 Hijiori Lantern Festival ‘肘折灯籠祭’, Hijiori, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
2023 Selected piece from Royal Collection as part of a Special Exhibition celebrating the 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
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
2025 Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan
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 engagement workshop to encourage drawing in museum spaces.
Illustration clients include:
Ancestry UK, It’s Freezing in L.A, Daiwa Foundation, The London Transport Museum, Akaoni Design, Penguin Random House, University of the Arts.
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