15 October - 19 November 2022

Carole Shepheard is a multi-award-winning artist with work held in national and international collections – A Path Less Travelled showcases Carole's printmaking practice.

Join us on Saturday 19 November for a special afternoon celebrating Carole’s longstanding contribution to printmaking in Aotearoa. Groove to a live performance by JT + Agnostics with guest Holly Shepheard from 12 - 1pm, leading into an artist talk with Carole Shepheard from 1:30 - 2:30pm. This is a special opportunity not to be missed!

Extract from Digging Deep, an exhibition catalogue essay for Carole Shepheard, A Path Less Travelled by Helen Schamroth ONZM:

Engaging with Carole Shepheard’s exhibition A Path Less Travelled (Robert Frost) is like reading an engrossing memoir where revelations invite the viewer into the artist’s psyche. The titles of her works offer coded insights, while the multi-layered abstracted images encourage the viewer to dive deep to discover her innermost thoughts, her memories and her fears. The exhibition is personal, intimate in its content, never literal, but rather an evocation of her emotional responses, all expressed through the medium of print which she believes offers her many options.    

Such honest revelations of her responses to life’s challenges expose the vulnerability of an artist who cherishes her lifelong commitment to her art, fellow artists and students, alongside her life as a wife, mother and grandmother. She seldom shirks from this internal narrative as she explores her philosophy of life, and her perception and instinct guide her through memory and testimony. She creates an image of beauty while simultaneously offering a way to penetrate the surface in order to reveal what might be struggling to become evident.

Download the exhibition catalogue here

Download Digging Deep, an essay by Helen Schamroth ONZM here