Associate Professor Dominic Shepherd

Course Leader – MA Painting and Art Subject leader Graduate SchoolMA, FHEA

Overview

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 course 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 explored the influence and role of enchantment, the occult and magic in modernist and contemporary art.

As well as studio-based research practice, Dominic is involved in collaborative research investigations with the Inner Space Exploration Unit (ISEU), a cross-disciplinary collective with members based at AUB; AUP and the University of Cambridge. A current project The Book of Keys is due to be published in the near future.

Qualifications

MA Fine Art (Painting) (Chelsea College of Art and Design) (1994–95)
BA Fine Art (Chelsea College of Art and Design) (1985–88)

Teaching Qualification

PGCert/MA Academic Practice Supervising Research Degrees (2019)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018)
PGCE (PCET) University of Greenwich (2001)

Teaching

I am currently Course Leader MA Painting as well as an acting Research supervisor . From 2014 until 2021 I worked with BA Fine Art at AUB primarily focusing on establishing the the Painting studios. I have also taught as a visiting lecturer at Cheltenham College of Art and Design and Solent University. Before 2014 I was associate lecturer on the foundation Diploma 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.