She has recently been included in: The Darker Side of Fairy Tales, Che Camille, Glasgow; New Graduates, Compass Gallery, Glasgow; Unfall, Vic Assembly Gallery, GSA, Glasgow; Beers Barnes Circus : The Big Show, GSA, Glasgow; ELIA Bloom Project, Brussells; Re:do, Domane Marienburg, Hildesheim, Germany; Interim, LCAD, Leeds; SEAsalt, Saltmarket, Glasgow.
She has been selected for the Ars Häme 09 Arts Week, Riihimäki, Finland.
Processes of transformation and change inform Shepherd’s work. In ex she shows the video work Unfall. The piece stems from being shown her great grandmother’s wedding ring. Attracted to the visible effects of time that the ring possessed, she sought to capture something of this transformation and through a consideration of the forces that gradually altered the ring’s surface she saw a connection to the childhood game of hoop rolling. Shepherd made an enlarged replica of the ring, which she rolls through a range of different landscapes and terrains throughout the film. This unconventional companion causes her to travel inefficiently, her movements are neither direct or of a constant speed. We experience a change in the nature of her movements in more densely populated surroundings and become increasingly aware of the potential inappropriateness of the activity for someone who is no longer a child.
Unfall - Digital Video - 2009
