Timothy Sawyer Shepard is an American-born multidisciplinary artist interested in the shifting boundaries between memory, perception, and consciousness. Across collage, photography, film, installation, music, and print, he constructs intricate works that evoke the layered experiences of existence and remembrance.

 

Although ‘home’ has been Notting Hill for many years, Shepard's artistic practice has evolved through a nomadic life between the US, UK, France, and Japan. His extended times spent in the Montagne Noir in southern France—where he made work in a rooftop studio and staged ephemeral interventions during solitary hikes—continues to inform his poetic reconstructions of place and time.

 

Following an education at Eton College, Shepard studied Fine Art and Theology at Columbia and Georgetown Universities. A long creative relationship with the late Royal Academician Michael Kidner, for whom he worked for over a decade,  instilled in him an equal commitment to conceptual rigour and exploratory wonder. He has lectured at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.

 

Music also plays a significant role in Shepard's work. He has created album art and music videos for artists such as Paul Weller and Kevin Ayers and co-produced Ayers’ final album, *The Unfairground*. Additionally, he founded the experimental label Underground Sounds in the 1990s, which challenged conventions around sampling and authorship. Recently, he was a Creative Consulting Producer on the film *Becoming Led Zeppelin*.

 

Blending the poetic with the precise, Shepard's work invites the audience into dreamlike reconstructions of lived experiences and collective memory. He invites us to wander, gather, and reassemble the fragments of the world—and ourselves—into new forms and meanings, prompting us to consider not just where we are, but how we might imagine what it's like to be there.