{{Short description|New Zealand artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox artist | name = Carole Shepheard | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|size=100%}} | image = | caption = | birth_name = Carole Marie Shepheard | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|11|06|df=y}} | birth_place = Taumarunui, New Zealand | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | movement = Feminism | spouse = | awards = Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) | patrons = | field = Printmaking | training = Elam School of Fine Arts, PhD | works = }}
'''Carole Marie Shepheard''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|size=85%}} (born 6 November 1945) is a New Zealand artist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/13599/|title=Shepheard, Carole|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref> She specialises in printmaking and her work is held in national and international collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/2075|title=Carole Shepherd|website=collections.tepapa.govt.nz|language=en|access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref> and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artist/1578/carole-shepheard|title=Carole Shepheard|work=Auckland Art Gallery|access-date=11 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>
== Education == Shepheard studied at the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Art in 1964–1967 (Honours in Stage Design)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues21to30/carole.htm|title=Carole Shepheard in Full Flight|last=Eastmond|first=Elizabeth|website=Art New Zealand|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref> and 1998–2004, receiving a Doctorate of Fine Arts in 2004.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://creativewaikato.co.nz/directory/listing/231/dr-carole-shepheard-multi-media-artist-educator-writer/|title=Carole Shepheard|website=creativewaikato.co.nz|access-date=11 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011232448/http://creativewaikato.co.nz/directory/listing/231/dr-carole-shepheard-multi-media-artist-educator-writer/|archive-date=11 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Career == A self-described feminist artist,<ref name=":0" /> Shepheard's work revolves around the re-interpretation of historical, domestic, and cultural objects.<ref name=":1" /> Through her prints she used symbols and images of the body in a consciously feminist way.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/painting/page-9|title=Painting – Painting of identity|last=Phillips|first=Jock|website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |language=en|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref> Her use of materials draws on her feminist reflections on the role of women, specifically in the home. In her early years as an artist she concentrated on small-scale, often modular pieces, that utilised women's traditional arts, including stitching, quilting, batik, and weaving. From the mid–1970s she expanded to drawings, collages, etchings, and prints.<ref name=":0" />
She was an early member of the Feminist Art Networkers. Formed in 1982, the network was made up of Auckland women artists and art historians<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/archives/19595|title=Feminist Art Networkers Archive|work=Auckland Art Gallery|access-date=11 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> and included Juliet Batten, Elizabeth Eastmond, Alexa Johnston, Claudia Pond Eyley, Priscilla Pitts, and Cheryll Sotheran.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://overthenet.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/found-cheryll-sotheran.html|title=Found: Cheryll Sotheran|website=overthenet.blogspot.co.uk|date=23 March 2011 |access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref>
Shepheard taught at the Elam School of Fine Arts for sixteen years, holding teaching, administrative and managerial positions. While at the school she established a Women in Leadership Programme, curated participation in international biennales and exhibitions, supported an artist in residence programme, and founded the Association of Women Artists and in 1991, the Artists Alliance.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=2048186|title=Through the looking glass|last=Herrick|first=Linda|date=23 June 2002|work=New Zealand Herald |access-date=11 October 2017|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}</ref> Shepheard retired from Elam in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-23 |title=Cracks appearing in the foundation |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cracks-appearing-in-the-foundation/MUWTRG3CZUFMFNHQ7WLP7YPRRY/ |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
In 1993, with Anne Gambrill, and support from the Auckland Zonta International Club, she organised the Zonta New Zealand Women's Print exhibition. The exhibited toured galleries throughout New Zealand to celebrate the centenary of women's suffrage in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://zonta.org.nz/district-16-history/prominent-member-histories/prominent-member-history-anne-gambrill/|title=Prominent Member History: Anne Gambrill – Zonta International District 16|work=Zonta International District 16|access-date=11 October 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref>
In the 2002 New Year Honours, Shepheard was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2002|title=New Year Honours List 2002|website=New Year Honours List 2002|date=31 December 2001 |language=en-NZ|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref>
Shepheard is the president of the Waikato Society of Arts<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wsa.org.nz/committee.aspx|title=Waikato Society of Arts – Committee|website=www.wsa.org.nz|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref> and a director of the Te Puti Art Studio, where she also works as an artist. She established the Te Puti Art Studio in 2009 to teach and support local artists.<ref name=":1" />
=== Exhibitions === At the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki she exhibited a solo show in 1991, ''Carole Shepheard: Essence and Shadow'', and in 1993 was part of ''Unruly Practices'', a series of solo projects by feminist artists living in Auckland, including works by Claudia Pond Eyley, Mary McIntyre, Christine Hellyar, Sylvia Siddell.
Shepheard created the Museum of Cultural Anxiety (MOCA) in an Auckland warehouse space. The project operated between 2002–2006 and provided the basis for her doctoral study.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Shepheard |first=Carole |title=Lieux de mémoire : the object, the artist and the museum |date=2004 |degree=PhD |publisher=ResearchSpace, University of Auckland |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/1896}}</ref> She showcased the outcome of her doctoral work in 2002 with her exhibition ''Off Site'' at the Te Tuhi gallery in Pakuranga, Auckland. A huge mixed-media exhibition, it was opened by then Prime Minister Helen Clark.<ref name=":2" />
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== Further reading == Artist files for Shepheard are held at: * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/11/ Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna Library] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/1/ E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/2/ Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/6/ Fine Arts Library, University of Auckland] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/3/ Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/4/ Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/8/ Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury] Also see: * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/publication/9/ Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists] McGahey, Kate (2000) Gilt Edge
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