10 Grosvenor Street Art Space
Gosvenor Street
London
W1K 4QB
United Kingdom
Timothy Shepard is exhibiting 24 works from two ongoing series which address themes of observation, whole system thinking, memory, time and, the juxtaposition of perception and reality.
SYSTEM OBSERVATION: System Observations derive from the artist's interest in systems thinking and Monet's observations of haystacks - the change of light falling on them hour by hour. He uses a 16mm cine camera to photograph at fixed intervals a singular view onto a systemic event. The resulting individual film frames are scanned and sequenced into a grid creating an autopoietic assemblage expressive of the system as a whole.
LANDSCAPE COLLAGE: A landscape collage begins with the artist being within the landscape itself, photographing countless individual elements which unselfconsciously catch his eye.
In a long and painstaking process, he reassembles these elements, layer upon layer. Hundreds of image fragments form the final picture, with a fluidity and interconnectedness that express both the actual and imagined - an omnijective plural viewpoint. This is how the mind conceives the landscape - both in the present of seeing it, and creatively as a memory. Memory is collage.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Timothy Shepard is an American artist living and working in London. This is his first London solo show. He has been included in a number of group shows, most recently the ZAP Zeitgeist and the forthcoming Discernible, both in London. His work has been commissioned by a number of critically acclaimed musicians such as Paul Weller, for the cover of his album '22 Dreams' reaching No. 1 in the charts, and Kevin Ayers for his last studio album, the 'The Unfairground', which Shepard also produced.