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CHRISTIANA SPENS

WORDS + PICTURES

  • ABOUT
  • The Colony
  • The Fear
  • BOOKS
  • ACADEMIC
  • JOURNALISM
  • ILLUSTRATION
  • PRESS

ILLUSTRATION

Christiana works across drawing, painting and printmaking, having illustrated books published by New York Review of Books Classics Series (The Strudlof Steps by Heimito Von Doderer), Granta Books (The Watermark by Sam Mills), and for publications such as The London Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Vice, Five Dials, The New Criterion and New Dublin Press. 

Recent exhibitions and projects have included Playing Up at the Freud Museum, London (2022), Embody Without Burden and Thoughts are Free at the Royal Glasgow Institute (2020), Inception at Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh, and an exhibition of illustrations at The Tartu Literary House, as part of Primavista Festival in Tartu, Estonia (2021). Christiana has also had two solo shows recently — Lived in Bars (2021) and Someone Borrowed, Someone Blue (2023) at the Stash Gallery, Vout-O-Reenee’s, London, with a group and then a solo show scheduled for October 2025 at Batsford Gallery, London. 

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