Shannon May Powell (AU)

Born 1989, Brisbane, Australia
Lives and works Melbourne, Australia

Shannon May Powell is a writer and visual artist based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land in Melbourne. Their work explores gender, sexuality and impermanence with analogue photography, text, video, and movement. They have exhibited at Berlin Feminist Film Festival, New York Art Book Fair, Melbourne Art Fair, Centre for Contemporary Photography, BLINDSIDE, Seventh gallery, MPavillion, Collingwood Arts Precinct, as well as local and international publications such as Vogue, i-D, Vice and Archer Magazines. Since 2018 Shannon has been an annual artist in residence at the VARDA Artist Residency in California where they spent time researching much of their recent work.