Marie Shannon


Marie Shannon is a New Zealand artist and educator who makes photography, video and drawing. Her artwork is in the collections of Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum, and Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland city galleries.

Background and education

Shannon was born in Nelson in 1960. She went to the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts and graduated in 1982 with a major in photography.
Shannon is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Career

Shannon's art is often centred around her domestic interiors and the creative process between her and other artists. Shannon represented New Zealand at Australia's Asia-Pacific Triennale in 1996, and was exhibited in the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. Then in 1998, her work was at New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster and Melbourne's ACCA.
Shannon's partner was artist Julian Dashper who died in 2009. She has made cataloguing his artworks into art, which are text-based videos. An example is The Aachen Faxes, Christchurch remix at the Christchurch Art Gallery. In a review of a retrospective of Shannon's work, the comment is made that she was overshadowed by her partner Dashper.
As an educator she works at Unitec, Auckland.

Selected exhibitions

Shannon's work is held in the following permanent collections: