Eve Shepherd
Now aged 47, she has worked on many international public commissions and her work is enthusiastically collected and held in public and private collections worldwide.
Throughout her lengthy career, she has committed herself to pushing the boundaries of figurative sculpture both technically and conceptually. As with all great artists she has cultivated a unique style and is now considered a master sculptor.
Born to a working-class family in Sheffield, UK from generations of steelworkers and cutlers, she quickly found her place and power, in speaking out for the voiceless through her sculptures.
Challenging social taboos and beliefs, her brave and inventive approach to tackling the oppression of disregarded groups within society reflects her own personal experience of growing up as an outsider.
She adopts this ethos in her personal, much sought-after ceramic and bronze work, speaking of the human condition and emotions and beliefs, often censored by ourselves or societal norms.
The sculpture aims to tackle an array of emotions, embracing all areas of the human psyche, in the hope that just one person might experience the work and feel heard.
The symbiotic relationship between humans and nature is also a crucial feature of the work. Growing up, her family home backed onto an ancient woodland, where she learned to love the wonder of nature and recognised our interdependence on it.
Reflecting this symbiosis, the personal and commissioned work often combine multiple elements of nature, plant, habitat, tree or animal, with the human form, either directly or in metaphor aiming to redress our elitist perspective that humans alone rule the roost.
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