Shirley Adamson is an Elder of the Tagish Nation who creates under the name Zhürá. Emphasizing her unique style she uses paints, canvases, found objects, bones, feathers, glass beads, and raw or processed hides in her work. By blending indigenous and contemporary mediums and styles her pieces convey a powerful message of cultural change.

Her work has shown at the Northern Front Studio gallery in Whitehorse, at Yukon College, at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, and at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. She has a piece in the Yukon Permanent Art Collection, and has collaborated with other beadwork artists on the installation commemorating missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls which is on permanent display at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. She also has a painting featured with the Indigenous plants interpretive garden at the Centre. Shirley has many canvases and abstract form pieces in private collections.

Shirley chose to work with Crocus