Murals, mythmaking, and narrative image-making
My practice explores light, storytelling, and belonging through large-scale figurative murals. The work sits between portraiture and mythmaking, using painted light both as an aesthetic device and a narrative toolm something that draws attention, but also holds meaning.
I’m interested in how images operate in public: how they interrupt routine, create moments of recognition, and give form to shared experience.
Selected Works
This body of work reflects my current direction, figurative murals developed for public space, working with light, myth, symbolism, and contemporary archetypes.
The Weaver | Myths & Legends I (2025) (c) Street Art Atlas / @streetartatlas - Commissioned by Redbridge Council
Langoureth & the Fish that Never Swam | Myths & Legends III (2025) - For Yardworks Festival
Genesis: An Idea Flickers to Life | Myths & Legends VIII (2025) - For Southend City Jam
Illuminated (2024) - For UPFEST Presents Art House
Guinevere Claims Her Own Heart | Myths & Legends VII (2025) - For Weston Wallz Festival
Berba, Goddess of the Barrow | Myths & Legends IX (2025) - Commissioned by Kildare County Council
Candlelight (2023) - For WOM Takeover of Penge Rooftop Gallery
Shine Your Light (2023) - Commissioned by Colaiste Bride Secondary School
About Shauna
Shauna Anseo is an Irish muralist and street artist based in London whose large-scale figurative works explore light, storytelling, and belonging. Her murals sit between portraiture and mythmaking, using painted light both as an aesthetic device and a narrative tool.
After working in arts management across museums and community festivals, she moved from studio to street, shifting her practice toward collaboration and public space. She has since produced murals across the UK, Europe, Mexico, and the US, working with councils, festivals, and communities to translate local stories at architectural scale.
Shauna is a proud member of WOM Collective, an all female grass-roots street art collective based in London. She tutors in spray-painting and careers guidance at the London School of Muralism.
Myths and Legends
Shauna’s current body of work, Myths & Legends, reimagines folklore and oral histories through a contemporary lens. Ordinary people appear as modern archetypes, figures caught between the everyday and the symbolic.
Shauna is drawn to myth for its ability to be both hyper-local and universal. Stories that belong to a specific place often echo across cultures, carrying shared concerns around identity, memory, and change. Through this work, she’s explore how places define themselves through collective narratives, and how those narratives evolve over time.
Often developed through dialogue with local communities, her murals aim to create brief moments of enchantment in the everyday
Festivals & Public Painting
Alongside commissioned projects, I regularly paint at street art festivals and community jams. These works sit slightly outside formal briefs and timelines, allowing more room for intuition, play, and experimentation.
Festival contexts offer a different kind of freedom: a chance to lean further into style, atmosphere, and concept, and to respond directly to the wall, the location, and the energy of the event. They’re spaces where curiosity leads the work, whether that means pushing colour, testing new visual ideas, or exploring a lighter or more abstract register.
They’re also important sites of collaboration. Working alongside other artists, responding to shared briefs, and exchanging ideas in real time continues to shape how my practice evolves.
Guinevere Claims Her Own Heart | Weston Wallz, UK (2025)
Genesis: An Idea Flickers to Life | Southend City Jam, UK (2025)
Langoureth & The Fish That Never Swam | Yardworks, UK (2025)
Päivätär | MOS Finland Collab Wall (2025)
The Serpent Queen of Lisbon | Juntas Hacemos Mas, Portugal (2025)
The Sage | Upfest WOM Collective Collab Wall, UK (2024)
Artist in a Floating World | Southend City Jam, UK (2024)
Rueben | MOS Greece, (2024)
Lucy | Juntas Hacemos Mas, Lisbon (2024)
Tash | MOS Kosovo (2024)
Incantation | Whitecross Street Party, UK (2023)
Enchantment | MOS France (2023)
Journal
The Journal is a written space, a place for reflection on my practice. Here, I write about my own work: tracing where ideas come from, unpacking decisions after the fact, and trying to understand patterns that emerge across projects. It’s less about documenting outcomes, and more about sense-making, teasing out what the work is doing, and why certain themes, images, or questions keep returning.
The tone is looser and more exploratory, offering a glimpse into the thinking that runs alongside the practice.
Selected Collaborations
Porsche
Tribe City
Slurp Soho
Honda
Tribe Waterloo
Slurp Shoreditch
Enquiries
For festival invitations, collaborations, or private commissions, feel free to get in touch.
