Struggling to nurture a creative career while parenting, Miki confronts self-doubt and perfectionism by drawing her children.
Miki Shaw
Miki Shaw is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. She read her first degree in Computer Science at Cambridge University followed by an MSc in Computer Animation at Bournemouth’s National Centre for Computer Animation, and later completed a BA in Fine Art at Middlesex University. She started her creative career developing Playstation games for Sony Computer Entertainment, including the SingStar series which won a BAFTA award for originality. Miki sometimes performs as a VJ, creating digital visual projections for live events. She has performed at Latitude festival, Bestival, and venues across the UK and Germany. She also works as an educator and facilitator, running creative workshops for children and adults. Her art has been exhibited at The V&A, The Point in Doncaster, Beaconsfield Gallery, ArtsDepot and the National institute for Medical Research. She has presented her graphic narrative work at the Graphic Medicine conference, and she has been published in three of the London-based ‘WIP Comics’ group’s annual anthologies.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey