Your Story, Told Your Way
The story of a place should be told by the people who shaped it.
I collaborate with developers, councils, property teams, and placemakers to create meaning in the spaces they’re responsible for. Through a structured mythmaking process of research, participation, and narrative design, local histories and lived experiences are translated into contemporary stories.
These stories become site-specific public artworks, transforming blank walls and public spaces into lasting landmarks people recognise, care about, and share.
Accepting new project opportunities
Trusted by councils, brands and cultural partners across the UK & Europe
Who I Work With
People who understand that bricks are only the start of the story. This is for you if you need a public realm artwork to do more than look good.
Developers and property managers delivering new communities
Councils and BIDs driving regeneration and civic pride
Placemakers and urban designers seeking identity and story
Co-living / co-working brands cultivating shared culture and meaning
Not sure yet? Take the Developer Diagnostic to see if you’re a good fit.
A place can look finished, and still feel like nowhere
When a new development rises or an established place needs a reset, something vital can slip through the cracks, its sense of story.
Without that story, even the most ambitious project can feel disconnected, temporary, or rootless. People pass through, but they don’t feel ownership. They don’t stay, protect it, or talk about it.
The risk isn’t that the art looks bad.
The risk is that it means nothing, and fails to create connection, care, and everyday respect for the space.
My murals and site-specific artworks strengthen placemaking by:
Revitalising overlooked areas: turning blank walls and tired routes into landmarks people care about.
Creating distinctive developments: giving buildings a narrative identity that sets them apart and makes them memorable.
Attracting engagement and visibility: drawing people in through story, meaning, and recognisable symbols.
Your project becomes more than a space, it becomes a place with identity, rooted in community and meaning.
Shauna Anseo | Murals & Placemaking
I’m Shauna Anseo, I help places tell the truth about themselves.
I create site-specific public artworks that translate local history and community story into lasting visual landmarks, so a place feels rooted, not generic.
I work best with teams who care about what happens after the ribbon-cutting: whether people feel proud of the space, whether they treat it with respect, and whether it becomes somewhere they want to return to.
Mythmaking is my method: local research, community participation, and narrative design, shaped with stakeholders, delivered professionally, built to endure.
The Mythmaking Journey
My process follows a 4-stage plan that reduces risk and builds real community and stakeholder buy-in.
1. Book a Project Conversation
Tell me what you’re building or sprucing up, who it’s for, and what you want the space to feel like.
2. Story Gathering
We uncover the site’s identity through local research, stakeholder insight, and (where appropriate) community participation.
3. Creation
The story informs a site-specific artwork, designed, produced, and delivered with professional-grade materials and a durable finish.
4. Legacy
A landmark people recognise, use, and return to, strengthening pride, identity, and connection for years to come.
Why Stories Matter in Placemaking
When a place tells a story, people stay. They take ownership, they protect it, they share it.
Through my Mythmaking as Placemaking process, you gain:
Local credibility: artwork rooted in lived history and cultural context
Community connection: meaningful participation that creates trust, not just box-ticking
Distinctiveness: a landmark people navigate by and talk about
Social impact: belonging that can reduce friction and anti-social behaviour
Legacy: artwork that becomes part of the town’s narrative over time
Your project doesn’t just change a skyline, it shapes how people relate to the place.
Selected Case Studies & Testimonials
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The Weaver
A story-led landmark celebrating women, diversity, and local textile heritage.
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Westcliff on Sea, Shore & Sky
A neglected public route transformed into a bright, navigable landmark rooted in local nature.
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Berba: Goddess of the Barrow
A transformation myth used to mirror a town’s moment of change and renewal.
Athy, Co. Kildare, Ireland
“The Wycombe Swan
What a treat it has been to see high quality public art in the town.
This lays the foundation for other enhancements in this location and sets the tone for what can be achieved across the county.
To come in ahead of time and within budget was well received by stakeholders. An entirely positive experience
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Your story, told your way. Guaranteed.
My Commitment to Every Project
Collaborative from the ground up: the story is co-created with the people who know the place best, so the final work is locally owned, not imposed.
No generic concepts: the narrative is unique to the site and its people
Clear checkpoints: set milestones so stakeholders can review direction before paint touches the wall
Designed for impact: the artwork supports identity, engagement, and legacy, not just aesthetics
Developer Diagnostic
Is your site’s “sense of place” actually showing up?
A short diagnostic + briefing designed for development and regeneration teams.
It helps you spot where community disconnect, blandness, or stakeholder friction is most likely to emerge before anything becomes permanent, and what to do about it.
Useful early-stage, pre-planning, or when you’re tightening a brief.
Avoid a mural that looks good but means nothing
When public art isn’t grounded in local story, it often leads to:
Polite indifference (no landmark effect, no pride)
Stakeholder tension (“who is this for?”)
Missed engagement opportunities
You don’t need louder colour. You need meaning people can stand behind.
Here Just For The Art?
Alongside commissioned public artworks, my practice explores myth, light, and storytelling through drawing, painting, and mural work.
Always open to collabs, festivals, projects and shows.
Start Telling the Story of Your Place
Whether you’re planning a regeneration scheme, launching a co-living space, reinvigorating an existing community space, or building a creative landmark and want an artwork, Let’s Talk
Press, festivals, and art enquiries are welcome too. Check out my contact section and say hi!