About

Shannon Jade Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and creative producer based in Dublin. Her practice moves across printmaking, drawing, sculpture, moving image, installation, socially engaged practice, and arts education.

Her work explores folklore, memory, grief, haunting, and the relationship between land, story, and the body. Often drawing on Irish mythology, ghost stories, oral histories, and inherited narratives, Shannon is interested in how the past continues to live within people, places, and materials. Her current work considers figures such as the banshee and the Cailleach as symbols of mourning, transformation, and feminine knowledge.

Materiality is central to her practice. She works with processes and materials such as print, hair, flax, chalk, projection, sound, and found natural forms to create works that hold traces of presence and absence. Through repeated lines, layered images, suspended forms, and atmospheric installations, she creates spaces where memory, ritual, and landscape begin to overlap.

Shannon has a background in visual arts, museum education, heritage, and socially engaged practice. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford and has worked extensively across museums, schools, community settings, public art projects, and creative learning programmes. Alongside her studio practice, she facilitates workshops that make creativity accessible, meaningful, and inclusive for people of all ages.

Her work is rooted in a belief that creativity can help us process experience, connect with others, and make visible the things that are often difficult to speak about.