Timothy Sawyer Shepard
Bio
Timothy Sawyer Shepard is an expatriate American artist who grew up in between the USA and the UK, settling permanently in London via Paris after university in New York City and Washington DC. He has spent extended periods in the Montagne Noir in France between 2000 and 2015.
Solo shows have been at Grosvenor Street Art Space, London (2013), The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, Colorado (2014), the National Centre For Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder Colorado (2014-2015), and The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk (2014 & 2021) He has also exhibited with: Zeitgeist Arts Projects, Charlie Dutton Gallery, Caroline Wiseman Modern & Contemporary, London Art Fair, 20/21 British Art Fair, Standpoint Gallery and Collyer Bristow Gallery. His work is in private collections in the USA, UK, Japan, France and Germany.
Shepard has created a number of album covers, including Paul Weller 22 Dreams (2008), and Kevin Ayers, The Unfairground (2007). He has also created a number of music videos, usually working with super8 or 16mm cinefilm, including for Kevin Ayers, The Go-Betweens, Terry Edwards and George Vjestica - (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds).
Founded and curated the experimental music label, underground sounds (1996- 2000). Co-produced the final album of legendary cult artist Kevin Ayers and numerous collaborations with musicians as both a visual artist and film maker Worked as a project-based studio assistant for Michael Kidner RA. (1993 – 2007),.
Has been a guest tutor at Central St. Martins College of Art (1992, 1993) and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art (2002)
Various artist residencies including Barry Flanagan's Centre de Scultpure Montolieu France and the Aldeburgh Lookout Suffolk.
Awarded the inaugural Francis Carnwath Prize for the Arts (2021) Currently promoting his first album of collected music compositions - available via all streaming platforms. Lives in Notting Hill, London with his 12-year-old daughter, Willow - single parent
Artist Statement
I am interested in the overlapping relationships between perception, consciousness and memory an area that has accompanied me throughout my practice working with paper, photography, cine film and music composition as well as numerous project collaborations over both short and long terms.
I have recently returned from a trip to Japan where I walked along a section of the Tokaido rd collecting material for new psychogeographic landscape works - in the footsteps of Hokusai and Hiroshige - two artists whose approach to their work has been a fundamental influence upon my own.
My current project is the release of an 11 track album of music compositions meticulously collaged from hand triggered samples of music fragments sourced from hundreds of junkstore records - its called Long Ago Forgotten.
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Timothy Sawyer Shepard
I am interested in the overlapping relationships between perception, consciousness and memory an area that has accompanied me throughout my practice working with paper, photography, cine film and music composition as well as numerous project collaborations over both short and long terms.
I have recently returned from a trip to Japan where I walked along a section of the Tokaido rd collecting material for new psychogeographic landscape works - in the footsteps of Hokusai and Hiroshige - two artists whose approach to their work has been a fundamental influence upon my own.
My current project is the release of an 11 track album of music compositions meticulously collaged from hand triggered samples of music fragments sourced from hundreds of junkstore records - its called Long Ago Forgotten.
