Shannon Bono (UK, b.1995) is a visual artist and MA Art & Science Associate Lecturer living and working in London. Shannon’s paintings embody an afrofemcentrist consciousness, sharing muted narratives and projecting black women’s lived experience. She is invested in producing layered, figurative, compositions embedded with symbols and scientific metaphors that centralise black womanhood as a source of knowledge and understanding. Enamoured by African spiritually, Christian iconography and renaissance art she employs its purpose of cultural impact, liturgy and instruction for an improved society within her works. Shannon explores the internal body as well as the external, by merging the design of notable fabrics from Africa with biological structures and chemical processes in living organisms for the backgrounds of her works and using the anatomy as a second canvas in the foreground. She views the body as a powerful signifier that provokes dialogue, playing with pose, gesture, and the gaze to challenge reality.