KMG’s Nuart 2026 mural at the University of Aberdeen’s King’s College campus pays tribute to pioneering alumna and writer Nan Shepherd. Set against the Zoology Building in the Cruickshank Botanic Garden, the piece features a blackbird in KMG’s distinctive style alongside the words “unheard, unseen,” echoing themes from Shepherd’s nature writing. The mural blends art, literature, and landscape, celebrating overlooked voices while enriching the campus as a space for reflection, creativity, and cultural dialogue.
KMG is a Scottish artist who has been creating work on the street for over a decade.
Inspired by the Celtic folklore stories that have shaped her own cultural identity, her work is created to celebrate, revive and reclaim the mythologies and history of oral story telling that are often overlooked and forgotten.
Her work explores how marginalised communities have been impacted by different social agendas and the effect this has had on our cultural legacies, connections and landscapes.
KMG uses her work as a catalyst to provoke questions on how these stories and myths translate to modern society, and the ways in which they are connected to our cultural identity and contemporary environments.
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KMG’s “unheard, unseen” mural honours Nan Shepherd at King’s College.
