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Shana James Artist

Printmaker, Artist, Educator

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Artist Shana James
Artist: Shana James
About

Shana James is an award-winning West Australian printmaker and artist with a life-long interest in visual storytelling and 30 years experience making and exhibiting. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1989 at Curtin University and a Master of Arts in Visual Art at Edith Cowan University in 2021.

Shana is fascinated by classical fairy tales, yarns, dreams and the natural world, her artwork represents humans and animals alive and active in unexpected, fantastic surroundings presenting a poetic interpretation of contemporary life. The mundane juxtaposed with the meaningful, reminding us of the mystery and wonder which is present in even the most ordinary life.

Teaching

Shana is also well-known as an excellent teacher with a gift for developing the talents of her students. Shana runs multi-day art and printmaking holidays, Creative Breaks in Bali, as well as other locations in Western Australia.

Shana is a very popular Tutor in Fremantle Arts Centre’s renowned courses program teaching printmaking, drawing, painting

When she is not teaching Shana works in her home studio near Fremantle.

Sales

Buy etchings and linocuts on the Art Sales page. Shana is represented in Perth by STALA CONTEMPORARY see her larger works here.

Shana has artwork in the collections of Kerry Stokes, ArtBank, Monash University, Western Australian Department of the Arts, The WA Water Corporation.

She has had eleven solo exhibitions and has been commissioned to make a series of linocuts for wine labels, she is available for commissions for sight specific works for your residence or business, murals and illustrations for labels and branding.

Shana James in the process of drawing on the Gallery Wall
Shana James in the process of drawing on the Gallery Wall for her exhibition Down the Rabbit Hole 2021
Essays

Click here to read Interplay Catalogue Essays by Professor Ted Snell

Click here to read Understanding Alice Catalogue Essay by Dr Ric Spencer

Click here to read the Down the Rabbit Hole Catalogue Essay which has more about Shana’s connection with Alice in Wonderland

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