So the internet and I have had a bit of a falling out and my website is down. I’m hoping that we can patch things up soon and I’ll be back online this week. Watch this space…

Hello all!

Following its first showing at The Son Gallery, my time based installation ‘Suspended Exhalation’ is now up in the Lobby of the Club!

The work is a time based installation whereby my exhaled breath is temporarily trapped within the black balloons. The balloons are placed in transparent PVC boxes isolating the exhaled moment from the space and exterior world.

Its been fantastic getting my hands on such a prominent space within the club to put up some work. It was great to have the huge wooden column to work around, the boxes seemed to  naturally fall into place with this unmoving structure to support their fragile form.

Hope you all get a chance to see it!

After a long search I have now moved into a new larger studio space! Im currently developing new works using the extra space!

I have now finished de-installing ‘Suspended Exhalation’ at the Son Gallery!

The went very well and I would like to thank everyone involved, especially those that put up with me using their flats, rooms, studios to sew countless PVC squares in the middle of my studio relocation. The work has now been packed and ready to move to The Hospital Club on Sunday where I will be re-installing the work, giving my lungs a few days to recover. The fully re-inflated piece will be on show in the lobby when the club opens Monday morning and be up for till the 16^th of May. Hope you can all make it down!

Me de-installing Suspended Exhalation at The Son Gallery

Alex Shepherd
SUSPENDED EXHALATION @ SON Gallery

APRIL 15 – APRIL 25
PRIVATE VIEW: APRIL 14, 6.30 – 9.00pm

In a continuation of his exploration of form and artistic fallibility Shepherd will create a monumental structure fabricated from over 200 square-meters of supple PVC and 500 latex balloons. The artist’s creative existence will be temporarily trapped within the installation: as Shepherd describes, ‘It does not freeze a captured moment in time but creates a kink in the artist’s lineal interaction with existence and time. It is in the kinks delaying of time that art emerges and is created.’

Following the success of his exhibition at the Son Gallery’ in Peckam, Alex Shepherds presents: an edited version of Suspended Exhalation for The Hospital Club. …”In Suspended Exhalation, the artist’s exhaled breath is used as a building material to inflate the work. In so doing Shepherd is trapping those moments of shared existence within the balloons, keeping it in a transparent plastic box separate from the world. A moment, which is slowly re-released into the exhibition space as the balloons naturally deflate in time.”

Study; Inwardly Degrading Square, 2010
Photogams (Resin-coated) 1/3
120cm x 150cm
£800.00 (unframed) – SOLD 1/3

“From simple elements of the everyday, Alex Shepherd opens up veins of investigation which yield results of rich beauty and depth. These quiet explorations speak volumes of the imperfections inherent in human existence and the failures that are a inevitable result of society’s constant drive for perfection.
Fascinating and intriguing, Shepherd’s work promises great things, and I am confident that the year ahead will bring truly rewarding developments for both the artist and the club members who are fortunate enough to interact with his progress”
Rukhsana Jahangir, head of the art department of the Museum of Everything

“The striking thing about Alex Shepherd is that his photographs display the sensibility of a young artist deeply concerned for the truth. He is beginning the complex process of developing his own special language: part scientist, part magician, he calls into play the disciplines of painting, sculpture, installation, drawing and photography as he examines each subject in front of the lens.”
Hannah Barry, Director of Hannah Barry Gallery

Inaugural message