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Email, kirstenshanks24@gmail.com      
Instagram, kirstenshanks_/



Education 
2025-2019, BA (with Honors), Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking. The Glasgow School of Art 
2021-2022, MA, Authorial Illustration, Falmouth Universtiy 


Awards/ Scholarships 
Emerging Artist Programme, Tate St Ives, Falmouth University 2021, Nurturing Talent Award, Young Scot 2021,
VACMA, South of Scotland, Emerging Visual Artist Grant
2019, W O Hutcheson prize 2019,
GSA Widening Participation Students Choice Award 2019,
Maude Marshall Scholarship

Residencies
2020, January - March, Studio Residency SaltSpace Coop, Glasgow UK
2019, August – November, Royal Scottish Academy; John Kinross Scholarship, Florence, Italy

Illustration Installations
2022, Beaver Trust, UK. Illustrations; Informantion Boards. Site specific, Woodvalley Farm. Truro, Cornwall 2020,
Window Illustrations. The Hirsel, Café & Farm Shop. Coldstream, Scottish Borders

Collections
Royal Scottish Academy: John Kinross Collection
Glasgow School of Art: WO Hutcheson Collection
Private collections

Publications
2025, Mouse The Kestrel, Children's Book Anonymous Badgers
2023, Bunny and Kestrel, Summer Holiday, comic, Sentimental Conversations Press
2023, Bunny and Kestrel, Valentines Circus, comic Sentimental Conversations Press
2022, Bunny and Kestrel, Night at Halloween Diner, comic Sentimental Conversations Press
2022, Illustration; Riso Print. Passages, MAAP Press, Falmouth University
2019, Illustrations, Carlaw, Margaret: Aspects of Culture within Stichill
2016, illustrations; Etching p20,22,23 Carlaw, Margaret: Trees and Woodlands of Stichill Parish

Stockists:

Gosh Comics London,
Goodpress Glasgow,
Helston Bookshop Cornwall,
Heron and Willow Jedburgh


Selected Exhibitions 
2025, 1st of May - 31st May, Hallway Show, CAST, Helston, UK
2025, 8th-28th Feburary, Cornish Maids, Wharfside Art Hub, Penzance, UK 2024, 26-27th October, Open Cast, CAST, Helston, UK
2024, 9th- 12th July, Paper Pieces, Auction. Lyon & TurnBull, London, UK 2023, 21st October,
Bunny and Kestrel 3, comic launch. Sailors Jail Gallery, Falmouth, UK2023, 2-3rd September,
Halfway Places for The Faint of Heart, with Liv Gravil.Open Cast, CAST, Helston, UK 2023,
14th September, Freckle Collective Pickle Factory, London UK 2022,
August 27- 30th, Unbound, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK 2022,
April 18 - 30th, Play, Pete Jordi Wood Studio, Falmouth, UK 2022,
April 4-22nd, Meander, Tate St Ives, UK2021,
Halcyon Days, Scottish Borders UK (Postponed)2020,
1st -12th October, Cherub (Solo Show) SaltSpace Coop, High Street, Glasgow UK2019,
March 25-26th, Tri um Viri, The Art School, Project Space 2, Glasgow, UK 2019, June 2-9th
Idyllic, The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, Stow College, Glasgow UK.2018,
March 27th -31st, No Safe Haven, Glasgow Women’s Aid, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK 2018,
March 14-19th, Something Like That, The Glue Factory, Glasgow UK2017, February 12-15th, Toner Cartridge is Almost Empty, Stereo, Glasgow UK, 2016,
March 19th -21st, Series Two, McLellan Gallery, Bourdon Gallery, Glasgow UK

Teaching
2026, comic workshop series, Halwin, Parc Eglos, Sithney, Primary Schools Cornwall  
2023- present SEN teaching assisant
2021-24, Life Drawing and Portraiture tutor, 1-1/ private groups.