I’m Shannon Amey, a Canadian-Irish artist based in Aalborg, Denmark. My work is an abstract translation of emotion—shaped by memory, personal history, and a longing to belong. As someone always living in places I’m not from, my work explores identity, place, and the shifting nature of experience over time. I’m interested in how we co-create meaning, how memory distorts and softens, and what it means to root ourselves in stories—personal or shared. Recurring themes in my practice include community, connection, and the ongoing pursuit of purpose and belonging.

Doing something with art for, around, and with people, especially in public spaces, peaks my interest. I love art's ability to move us and make the world bigger – that art can make us wonder, even without the artist being physically present. As a practicing artist, I explore transformations of the body and materials through performance, prints, paintings, and sculptures. When I am not making art myself I spend my time creating safe and inspiring spaces where I can teach others about art and creative processes. I teach at an artistic boarding school and facilitate creative workshops. Constraints, play, imagination, experiments, and a relationship to existing spaces and personal narratives often result in exhibitions and public installations.

People call me Simon. I do visual design. What does that mean? It means I drink lots of coffee, and in-between cups I design logos and identities, print posters, shoot photos, create granduosly incomprehensible mindmaps, and formulate words and sentences that sometimes make sense. I don’t call myself an artist, but some of my co-backyartists seem to disagree. In my various endeavours I always try to seek out the challenging and difficult path to the finish line. The path that can teach me a new craft, or open my eyes to new perspectives and ways to look at life and stuff. I don’t mind getting my hands dirty and I love a chaotic and uncertain process. Yep, I think that sums me up fairly well. Don’t hesitate to reach out, if you wanna rock n’ roll!

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Through my work I investigate fragility, vulnerability, connection, and permeability in relation to the home, our bodies, and Earth. In my own work I observe and analyze existing connections and create new ones using my preferred medium – paper. Working with paper means I draw, cut, weave, layer, fold, and shine light through it in order to create new versions of the connections I see in the world. My work is in its nature autobiographical and introspective, and part of my process revolves around trying to repeat my process and through repetition seeing change. When I’m not creating I facilitate – I strive to create a setting for others to express their own creativity and connect, often with people who are not familiar with working with art.

Conscious art…or maybe rather, art of consciousness. What is the purpose of my life? What do I wish to bring into this world? What are my ideals? And what is preventing me from living them? These questions are on my mind and I think I might not be the only one. I dont pretend to have the answers but I love to use art to dive into my inner and outer worlds to explore them, hoping to be able to create something in that process, that inspires others to do the same and to find their own answers. I live with one foot in a very practical world, working with agriculture, veggies and fruits, the other foot is placed in the more subtle world as a yoga teacher, opening up to discover what is within the physical form. As an artist my main media is acrylics on canvas. I work through symbolism, myths, archetypes and my personal stories and experiences, to create worlds and illustrations that often lean towards surrealism. Often I find inspiration in the culture and natural landscapes of the 3 continents I have lived in over the years. And I am often guided by playfulness and a sense of awe and wonder which somehow makes it easier to look at the deeper questions that arise. I welcome you to enter into these worlds and hope that they will spark something within you.

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