Kerry Shepherdson, Drift, 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.
Kerry completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours in 2004 at the Australian National University School of Art, an EAAS and Alliance Francais award recipient, followed by her Master of Philosophy in 2011. Since, Kerry has had 4 solo exhibitions including Canberra Museum and Gallery/Nolan following a three month pilot artist residency, at the Lanyon Homestead Heritage Precinct. Currently a practicing studio artist, Kerry has been exhibiting interstate and overseas, including regular participation in ANU field studies in which artists are asked to respond to the environment.
Kerry Shepherdson explores abstraction in acrylic painting through complex, apparently chaotic but fundamentally ordered mechanisms of growth in nature, and more recently the perpetual undulating currents of the vast landscape of the oceans. A profound sense of history and human minutia and vulnerability in the scheme of things is a constant inspiration. Her underlying influences reference the arts and crafts of Asia and Africa where she lived for many years, particularly her opportunity to study in depth water colour and ink Chinese Brush painting.
Her works are multilayered and metaphorical, referencing systems developed in contemplative autonomic processes arriving at complex visual syntheses of colour and light, irregular pattern and compositions that allude to underlying geometry.
Website: kerryshepherdsonart.com
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