Sian Atkins is an artist with a passion for abstract painting and digital illustration, and creating art that helps advocate for progressive change.

Her paintings embrace a maximalist, expressive style, using vibrant colours, dynamic shapes and patterns, and intricate details. With digital illustration, she uses text and more figurative imagery, often to convey activist messages more directly.

Sian is neurodivergent, queer, and vegan, and believes strongly in the power of art to amplify marginalised voices and help foster awareness and action around the need for radical transformative justice. As well as seeking to highlight harmful norms and practices, Sian's work aims to celebrate joys and help us imagine better, even utopic, future possibilities.

Themes of interest include disability justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and animal rights - all causes close to her heart and own lived experience. Sian also strives for an intersectional perspective, recognising that true lasting change will require solidarity across interconnecting causes, from feminism and anti-racism to climate justice and beyond.

Tying all this together, Sian embraces ideas around anti- and post-capitalism, in the knowledge that our current economic system and the massive class inequality it generates lies at the root of many if not all of the major global injustices we face.

As a keen meditator and practicing buddhist, Sian's work also draws on more spiritual themes - often a good antidote along the activist path especially - including connecting with the body, with nature, and the present moment, and cultivating unproductivity, pleasure and deep rest.

Sian's artwork is certainly for neurodivergent & disabled folks, for queer people, for vegans, for progressives and activists… but really, it is for us all! For all of us who believe in justice, in beauty, and in a more compassionate, equitable world for generations to come.

Exhibitions:

2025, Arcadia, MADE Gallery, Cardiff, UK