Birgitt Shannon lives in the Coromandel. She has been involved in numerous solo and group exhibitions, painted a life-size cow for the Morrinsville Herd of Cows Street Art Project and a piano for Katch Katikati. Birgitt has sold many paintings that hang in businesses and private collections in Australia, NZ, England, and the USA. She was runner-up at the 2018 Trustpower/TSA Supreme Award and was selected as a finalist for the 2019 Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards.