Associate Professor Dominic Shepherd
Course Leader – MA Painting and Art Subject leader Graduate SchoolMAOverview
Dominic Shepherd is a UK based artist and associate professor of Fine Art at the AUB where he acts as Arts subject leader within the Graduate School and award leader for MA Painting. Shepherd’s research, in both academic and practice-based terms, is concerned with aspects of the painted, the magical, myth-making and alternative narratives. He has exhibited internationally, with an extensive record of group and solo shows in London, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Munich and Miami and is represented by Charlie Smith London. He was co-founder of the international Black Mirror Research Network that explores the influence and role of enchantment, the occult and magic in modernist and contemporary art.
Dominic is currently working towards a solo exhibition in London and art fairs in New York and Basel for 2022 as well as creative investigation through research collaboration the Inner Space Exploration Unit, a cross-disciplinary collective based at AUB; Plymouth College of Art and the University of Cambridge.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MA Fine Art (Painting) Chelsea College of At and design 1994-1995
- BA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and design 1985-1988
Teaching Qualification
- PG Cert/MA Academic Practice Supervising Research Degrees 2019
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2018
- PGCE (PCET) University of Greenwich 2001
Teaching
I am currently Award Leader MA Painting and also teach into the third year in BA Fine Art. Since 2014 I have worked with BA Fine Art at AUB primarily focusing on the Paintlab studios. I have also taught as a visiting lecturer at Chetlenham College of Art and Design and Solent University. Before 2014 I was associate lecturer on the foundation dilpoma at AUB.
Courses
Research
Research Interests and Projects
Associate Professor Dominic Shepherd is interested in receiving applications from PhD practice based candidates who wish to explore Fine Art Painting and drawing with particular regard to material, process and/or image. More focused aspects might include investigation of the actual and the imagined through enchantment, revelation and the magical as both process and subject.
Research Supervision
Current Supervision: Juliette Losq
Layered Visions in the Teleorama: Constructing Sites of Ruination through Contemporary Drawing Practice.
Awards and Prizes
Notable awards/prizes
- Research Fellowshio AUB
- John Moores 23, Visitors Choice Prize
- Liquitex Excellence in Art Award
- Oppenheim-John Downes Trust Award
Memberships
Advance HE Membership
- Fellow (FHEA)
Professional Memberships
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2016)
- NAFAE (2014)