Carole Shepheard’s art production is remarkable both for its range, and its multiple levels of meaning. Characteristically, symbolism is interwoven with an exploration of the sensuous potential of materials. Carole’s practice ranges over a wide variety of media from printmaking, and painting through to large and small 3D expressions. Much of her work explores a re-interpretation of historical and cultural objects.
‘Surface quality has always been important to the way I work. I particularly enjoy the nature of materials, their in-built, sometimes unalterable qualities. In this way, the materials have a say in how they behave, how they are used and what effects can be achieved.’ – Carole Shepheard
As a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Auckland University, Carole brings to any art activity a lifetime of deeply thought knowledge and experience, enriching all who engage with her.
from out of the blue studio gallery is honoured to have Dr Carole Shepheard agree to be the juror for The Surface Design Association Regional Exhibition – TIME. Dr Shepheard will jury from electronic submissions and will then assist with the curating and presenting of the exhibition. The entries will be open from January 2024 til June 30th 2024. The exhibition will open 21st November 2024 and run until 20th December 2024.
For more information about TIME please see this link: https://fromoutofthebluestudiogallery.com/time/
curriculum vitae 2023 (selected from 2000 – )
educational qualifications:
- 2004 Doctor of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, (Lieux de Mémoire: the object, the artist and the museum)
- 1996 Master of Philosophy (First Class Honours, Art History), University of Auckland. (The Territorial Divide: Issues in Contemporary New Zealand Printmaking)
- 1968 Diploma of Teaching (Distinction), Auckland Teachers College
- 1967 Diploma of Fine Arts (Honours), The University of Auckland
- 1966 Diploma of Fine Arts (Design), The University of Auckland
significant international distinctions:
- 2002 New Years Honours (Queen Elizabeth 11), Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for Services to the Arts.
- 1991 Commonwealth International Woman of the Year (Services to the Arts)
academic background
After many years of teaching at the Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland (1989 – 2006), completing my Doctorate of Fine Arts and being awarded a Personal Chair, I took early retirement in order to take back ownership of my studio practice, address a health issue and to work more at community level. When employed at the University I undertook roles within the Faculty such as Acting Head of School, Deputy Head of School, Head of Research, Postgraduate Programme leader and supervised four successful Doctoral students.
professional activities:
- 2023 PCANZ Summer School Masterclass tutor, Auckland.
- Judge (Print), New Zealand Painting & Print Award, WSA, Hamilton
- Floor Talk. NZPPA, Hamilton
- Selector, Print Council of Aotearoa NZ exhibition Celebration at Aratoi, Masterton
- Guest Lecture, Printopia, Auckland
- Floor Talk, Celebrations, Aratoi, Masterton
- Creative Waikato, Te Whiria Tangata mentor programme. Mentor for artist Margaret Feeny
- Floor Talk, Celebrations, Aratoi, Masterton
- Guest Lecture, Printopia, Auckland
- Selector, Print Council of Aotearoa NZ exhibition Celebration at Aratoi, Masterton
- Floor Talk. NZPPA, Hamilton
- Judge (Print), New Zealand Painting & Print Award, WSA, Hamilton
- 2019 WINTEC, BVA Hons & MFA examinations. Hamilton.
- 2019 – 2021 Creative Community Scheme assessor (OtorohangaDistrict Council)
- Judge Kaipara, Mangawhai, Whangamata Art Awards
- 2018 Fulbright Panel Graduate Student Awards, assessor/interviewer.
- WINTEC, MFA examination (two students, painting and moving image)
- Creative Community Scheme assessor (OtorohangaDistrict Council)
- Public Talk (Boundless), Waikato Museum
- New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, WSA organising committee
- “Is it Art?” Debate, Waikato Museum, Hamilton
- PCANZ summer school tutor, Whanganui
- Tairua summer school tutor, Tairua
- Feasibility Study for PCANZ, print publication & survey exhibition
- Studio host for International Print Artists (William Barnhart USA and Gary Shinfield, Australia.
- Feasibility Study for PCANZ, print publication & survey exhibition
- Tairua summer school tutor, Tairua
- PCANZ summer school tutor, Whanganui
- “Is it Art?” Debate, Waikato Museum, Hamilton
- New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, WSA organising committee
- Public Talk (Boundless), Waikato Museum
- Creative Community Scheme assessor (OtorohangaDistrict Council)
- WINTEC, MFA examination (two students, painting and moving image)
Significant additional (and more recent) professional activities include being an inaugural Board Member of Creative Waikato, past Chair of the Hamilton City Public Art Panel, Fulbright Assessor (Wallace Art Awards), Postgraduate Advisory panel member WINTEC, past President of the WSA, Creative Communities Scheme panellist (Otorohanga), external examiner WINTEC
solo exhibitions:
- 2023 Chroma Chroma (w. Holly Shepheard), Railway St Gallery, Auckland
- 2022 Carole Shepheard: a path less travelled. Northart. Auckland.
- 2021 Carole Shepheard: Out of the Shadows. Hastings City Art Gallery.
- A twenty year print survey exhibition. Hastings.
- 2016 Uncanny Nature, The Little Gallery, Tairua
- 2013 beginning with chance, Artspost, Hamilton
- 2009 Supernova, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne
- 2006 The Vanity of All Human Things, Project Space Gallery RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
- The Velvet of Uncertainty, Spare Room Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia (a collaboration with Greer Honeywill)
- 2004 Lieux de Mémoire, Museum of Cultural Anxiety (M.O.C.A.), Auckland
- A Constellation of Memories, Tairawhiti Art Gallery & Museum, Gisborne
- 2002 Off Site / On Site. te tuhi-the mark, Pakuranga,
- measure, M.O.C.A. Auckland
- 2001 fall, suture, capture, spill –stain, whisper, shroud, eight installations. M.O.C.A. Auckland
- 2000 a day without armour a night without prayer, McPherson Gallery, Auckland
group exhibitions (selected / curated):
- 2023 Celebration. Twenty years of PCANZ. Aratoi, Masterton
- 2022 Five New Zealand printmakers, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne.
- With Kathy Boyle. Marci Tackett, Terrie Reddish and Jacqueline Aust.
- 2021 Carole Shepheard : Out of the Shadows, A twenty year print survey exhibition with eleven invited printmakers. Hawkes Bay City Gallery, Hastings.
- 2019 Distant Kinship. Print exchange and touring exhibition between the Netherlands and Aotearoa New Zealand. Whangarei. Hamilton. Aratoi (Palmerston North)
- 2018 Collective Women: Feminist Art Archives from the1970’s to the 1990’s. Curated by Nigel Borell, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.
- 2018 Print Matters, Selector Mark Graver, Print Council of Aotearoa NZ, ArtsPost Hamilton
- Ink, Railway St Gallery, Auckland
- 2017 From the Collection, Waikato Art Gallery & Museum, Hamilton.
- Four Artists, Baffin St Gallery, Waikato
- Waiprint, ArtsPost, Hamilton
- Four Artists, Baffin St Gallery, Waikato
- 2014–15 re-imaging, Te Awamutu Museum, Curator Jane Siddell, Te Awamutu
- 2014 Crossing Boundaries, Australia / New Zealand Printmakers, Sydney &
- NorthArt, Central Print Council, Auckland
- 2013 New Zealand Print, Gallagher Gallery, Curator Steph Chalmers, University of Waikato, Hamilton
- 2013 Punctum, Central Print Council, Wanganui, Hamilton, Auckland
- 2013 Waikato Painters and Printmakers, Hamilton
- 2012 Waikato Painters and Printmakers, Hamilton
- 2012 you + me + we + us, ArtsPost, Hamilton (with Steve Lovett and Miranda Playfair)
- 2009 Delineate[desire]; the kiss of possession, ArtsPost, Hamilton (with Lorraine Pemberton & Heather Bramwell)
- 2006 secretive (curated by Annete Cyr), Wheeler Gallery, Providence, USA
- 2005 Drawing: Out of Exile, te tuhi – the mark, Pakuranga, Auckland
- Nine Women Artists – a reunion, Remuera Gallery, Auckland
- New Prints from Baldessin Press, Bundoora Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
- Home Fires Burning, Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford, Taranaki
- New Prints from Baldessin Press, Bundoora Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
- Nine Women Artists – a reunion, Remuera Gallery, Auckland
- 2002 Creative Hastings, Hastings
- The Press Gang, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
- Memos, The Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland
- The Press Gang, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
- 2001 A Shriek from an Empty Box, Mejuro Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Multiple Connections, Bronx River Art Gallery, New York, USA
- 2000 Image & Text, Lopdell House, Titirangi
- International Print Portfolio (US tour of University Galleries)
- Elam Staff Exhibition, The George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
- International Print Portfolio (US tour of University Galleries)
selected articles and essays:
- 2022 CHESTERMAN, S. Carole Shepheard: The Pull of Print. Summer Issue, ART NEW ZEALAND
- SCHAMROTH, H. Digging Deep, Catalogue essay for Carole Shepheard: a path less travelled. Northart. Auckland.
- 2021 CHESTERMAN, S. Carole Shepheard: Out of the Shadows. Catalogue essay. HCAG, Hastings.
- 2006 ZAHRA, Dr Louiseann, Into a Mirror Darkly, Project Space, RMIT, Australia
- 2004 KIRKER, Anne, Art New Zealand, Winter Issue
- 2002 FUSCO, C. World Sculpture News, Vol 8, #3, Summer
- HERRICK, L, NZ Herald feature, June 24th.
- 2001 FUSCO, C. ‘whisper’. World Sculpture News, Hongkong
- FUSCO, C. Dilana Rugs, Craft Arts, Australia.
- MISHIKO. “A Shriek from an Empty Box’. Mejuro Art Museum, Tokyo
- FUSCO, C. Dilana Rugs, Craft Arts, Australia.
- 1998 SHAND, P., ‘An Eye for Detail’, Art New Zealand
- DUNN, M., ‘New Zealand Painting’, Craftsman House, Australia
- BROWN, W., ‘100 New Zealand artists’, Godwit Publishing, Auckland
- JONES A. (Ed), KUBITZA, A., “Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History”, UCLA/ Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Centre/University of California Press.
- BROWN, W., ‘100 New Zealand artists’, Godwit Publishing, Auckland
- DUNN, M., ‘New Zealand Painting’, Craftsman House, Australia
- 1993 KIRKER, A., ‘New Zealand Women Artists’, Craftsman House, Australia
- 1989 McINTOSH, J., “Contemporary New Zealand Printmakers’, Allen & Unwin, Australia
- 1986 EASTMOND, E., PENFOLD, M., ‘Forty New Zealand Women Artists’, Penguin, New Zealand
- BETT, E. ‘New Zealand Art’, Reid Methuen, New Zealand
selected published writing:
- 2023 Celebrations catalogue essay, PCANZ
- 2022 PROOF Print in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Transformed Landscape, PCANZ
- 2021 It’s the why. Broadsheet essay for Carole Shepheard: Out of the Shadows. HBCG
- 2021 Hand in Hand: Ruth Davey. Art New Zealand (Autumn)
- 2020 Accommodate, Weasel Gallery. Hamilton
- 2018 Hamilton Postcard, Art News (Spring)
- 2017 Boundless, Pataka Gallery, Porirua and then on tour.
- 2014 Wansolwara, catalogue essay, Nathan Homestead, Auckland
- 2012 Steve Lovett, Exhibition catalogue.
- 2008 & 9 Writing for Artist Profile magazine, Australia (articles on Kushana Bush, Judy Millar and Greer Honeywill)
- Showing One’s Hand, IMPRINT summer, Australia
- Give me a darkened space and I will paint with light. Wendy Leach, catalogue essay, Auckland
- a window on an inner world: the painting of Cristina Popovici, Spring, Art New Zealand
- The Alchemist, the artwork of Glen Mills, Gisborne
- 2006 Jewellery out of Context, Muse Gallery, Sydney
- The Alchemist, the artwork of Glen Mills, Gisborne
- a window on an inner world: the painting of Cristina Popovici, Spring, Art New Zealand
- Give me a darkened space and I will paint with light. Wendy Leach, catalogue essay, Auckland
- Showing One’s Hand, IMPRINT summer, Australia
- 2005 Lieux de Memoire:the object, the artist and the museum, Rhapsody 21C, ISBN186295 240 X
- Reflective Perspective, catalogue essay, Helen Schamroth Survey Exhibition, NorthArt, Auckland
- Beach Walker, catalogue essay, Simon Payton, Warwick Henderson Gallery, Auckland
- 2004 BlanketStitch, catalogue essay, ObjectSpace, Auckland
- Small Works, catalogue essay Anne Reithmeier, Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
- Lieux de Memoire, doctoral dissertation. M.O.C.A. Auckland
- Small Works, catalogue essay Anne Reithmeier, Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
- Reflective Perspective, catalogue essay, Helen Schamroth Survey Exhibition, NorthArt, Auckland
- A Constellation of Memories, catalogue essay, Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne
artist-in-residencies:
- 2015 St Cuthberts School for Venice Biennale)
- Whanganui Print Studio (UCOL), Whanganui
- 2014 Whanganui Print Studio (UCOL), Whanganui
- 2013 St Kentigens, Auckland
- St Cuthberts School for Girls (to accompany a senior visual arts group to the Venice Biennale)
- 2012 Tairawhiti, Gisborne
- 2011 St Cuthberts School for Girls (to accompany a senior visual arts group to the Venice Biennale)
- 2009 St Cuthberts School for Girls (to accompany a senior visual arts group to the Venice Biennale)
- 2006 Baldessin Press, Melbourne, Australia
awards, grants and prizes:
- 2009 Creative Communities Scheme Grants for Te Puti Studio (Creative NZ)
- 2006 University of Auckland Research Grant (The Black Mirror, Melbourne)
- 2005 Elam School of Fine Arts Conference Grant (Museology) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- 2004 University of Auckland Research Grant (Blind Spot)
- The University of Auckland Research Grant (Lieux de Mémoire)
- Elam School of Fine Arts Conference Grant (Impact 04, Capetown, South Africa)
- 2002 University of Auckland Research Grant (Museum of Cultural Anxiety)
- 2001 The University of Auckland Research Grant (Museum of Cultural Anxiety)
- Elam School of Fine Arts Conference Grant (CAA Conference, New York, USA)
- 1997 The University of Auckland Teaching Development Grant
- 1995 College Art Association Interdisciplinary Travel Grant
- Creative New Zealand International Promotion Grant
- 1992 Fulbright Travel Award, United States of America
judge / selector:
- 2023 NZPPA Print judge. WSA. Hamilton.
- PCANZ twenty year celebration exhibition, Aratoi, Masterton.
- 2019 Whangamata Art Exhibition.
- Mangawhai Art Exhibition.
- 2018 Secondary School student’s art competition, Hamilton
- 2017 Boundless, PCANZ, Pataka
- 2017 Taranaki Art Review (with Reuben Friend), Opunake
- 2017 Hawkes Bay Art Review, Napier
- 2015 Boundless, PCANZ, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
- 2011 No 8 Fencing Wire award & exhibition, WSA, Hamilton
- 2005 Con Hutton Scholarship, Otago School of Art, Dunedin
- NorthArt Members Exhibition, Auckland
- 2004 International Quilt Award, Auckland
- 2002 Hawkes Bay Art Award, Hasting Exhibition Centres
- Pakuranga Society of Arts, te tuhi – the mark gallery, Pakuranga
- Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award, Whakatane Arts Festival
- 2001 Auckland East Arts Council Awards
- Waikato Society of Arts, Hamilton
- 2002 NZ Professional Weavers Exhibition, Suter Gallery, Nelson
commissions (selected):
- 2001-2 Auckland City Council, Dame Barbara Goodman (Auckland Town Hall)
- 1998 St Peter’s College, Auckland
- 1997 Dilana Rugs, Christchurch (for Fisher Gallery exhibition)
- 1996 Dilana Rugs, Christchurch (for Barbican Gallery, London, exhibition)
- 1993 Parliament Building, Wellington
- 1991 Inland Revenue foyer, Auckland
- BMW Showroom, Auckland
- 1990 Commonwealth Games Quilt (Victoria, British Columbia)
Collections:
- Waikato University, Hamilton
- Waikato Art Gallery and Museum, Hamilton
- Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
- Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
- Auckland City Council, Auckland
- Victoria & Albert Museum (Print Portfolio). London
- University of Otago, Dunedin
- University of Auckland, Auckland
- Gisborne Art Gallery and Museum, Gisborne
- Parliament Building, Wellington
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wellington
- Bank of New Zealand, Wellington
- Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Wellington
- Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Wellington
- Auckland Museum, Auckland
- Air New Zealand Collection, Auckland & Los Angeles
- Cathay Pacific Airlines, Hongkong
- Auckland Regional Council Collection
- James Wallace Collection, Auckland
- Warwick & Kitty Brown Collection, Auckland
- Epsom Girls Grammar School, Auckland
- St Cuthberts College Auckland
- Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland
- Martin Hughes Associates, Auckland
To contact or follow Carole:
http://www.caroleshepheard.com
email: caroleshepheard1@gmail.co.nz