About me

Shirley is an award-winning French Edinburgh-based freelance illustrator and urban designer. She has a passion for promoting diversity as a way to celebrate her multiple cultures, through the warm, lively scenes and characters she crafts. With a dash of humour, she designs her illustrations as captures of the small moments that make life beautiful. Illustrator winner of 2021 FAB Prize, her work has been described as having " a great sense of fun and energy. She combines colours effortlessly and her bold style leaps from the page. Shirley’s work has a beautiful, retro feel, along with joyful themes and characters.’ (https://www.fabprize.org/updates/celebrating-five-fab-years-winners-announced/). In June 2022, Shirley was awarded a Create:Inclusion Grant for artistic development by Creative Scotland. Always learning, Shirley is now a Pop Up Project’s Pathways Plus mentee!

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Projects

• Food and Wine MagazineEditorial Illustration, 2022
• Portrait of Chaima Amara For Rebel Girls x NikeIllustrations, 2022
• Burnt Oak Banners and Visual IdentityVisual identity guidelines + illustrated and lighting banners for Burnt Oak, London Borough of Barnet, 2022

Work history

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IllustratorSel-employed
Mar 2022Edinburgh, United KingdomFull Time

Skills

• Foreign Languages
• Urban Design
• Architecture
• Adobe Create Suite
• Autocad
• Sketching
• Illustration

Education

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Master in ArchitectureENSAPVS
Sep 2004 - Mar 2009Paris, France
Architecture and Urban Studies

Awards

FAB Prize - IllustrationFaber and Faber
Winner of the 2021 FAB Prize in illustration