About

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist, artist-facilitator and creative producer based in Dublin and Wexford, Ireland. Working across printmaking, drawing, sculpture, moving image, sound and installation, my practice explores folklore, memory, grief and the relationship between land, story and the body.

Artistic Practice

My work asks the question, What haunts us?

Drawing on Irish folklore, ghost stories, oral histories and inherited narratives, I consider how the past continues to live within people, places and materials. My work frequently engages with figures such as the banshee and the Cailleach, approaching them as complex embodiments of mourning, transformation, feminine knowledge and our relationship with the land.

Materiality is central to my practice. Hair, flax, chalk, print, branches, projected image and voice become carriers of memory and loss. Through acts of gathering, knotting, binding, layering and repetition, I create work that hovers between bodily form, natural structure and apparition.

My installations invite viewers into atmospheric spaces where personal experience and collective folklore begin to overlap. Within these spaces, the landscape is not a passive setting but a living archive: one that absorbs, preserves and quietly bears witness to what has passed.

Participatory Practice

Alongside my studio practice, I develop socially engaged and participatory projects across schools, museums, cultural organisations and community settings.

My process begins with listening and connection. I meet people where they are and approach my role as a facilitator, rather than positioning myself as the sole artist or teacher. By creating welcoming and flexible frameworks, I support participants to experiment, share knowledge and shape their own meaningful creative outcomes.

My participatory work frequently explores folklore, local heritage, environmental sustainability, storytelling and our relationships with place. I believe that everyone is creative, and that creativity can help us process experience, connect with others and make visible the things that can be difficult to express through words alone.

Background

I hold a BA in Fine Art, specialising in Printmaking, from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and a Master’s degree in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

My interdisciplinary background spans visual art, museum education, heritage, public engagement and creative production. I have worked extensively with museums, schools, local authorities, community organisations and cultural programmes, developing accessible and inclusive creative experiences for participants of all ages.

Since 2024, I have been an Artist-in-Residence at Richmond Barracks with Dublin City Council Culture Company. My wider experience includes being an Assistant Artist on the Living Arts Project with Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford County Council, producing and being Lead Artist on the Fingal Creative Sustainability Programme, and working as Head of Education for EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.

Selected Highlights

  • Cnuasach / A Mass, acquired for the OPW State Art Collection, 2026

  • BA Fine Art – Printmaking, National College of Art and Design, 2026

  • They That Sorrow / Lucht an Dobróin, presented at NCAD Works, 2026

  • Richmond Barracks Artist-in-Residence, Dublin City Council Culture Company, 2024–ongoing

  • Spectres of Phoenix Park, presented as part of Dublin Art Book Fair, 2025

  • MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, University of Oxford

Contact

I welcome enquiries relating to exhibitions, commissions, residencies, socially engaged projects, workshops, talks and creative collaborations.

Email: shanjadewilson@gmail.com
Instagram: @shannonjadewilsonfineart