Caitlin Shepard Artist, Researcher & Educator University of the Arts London

Caitlin Shepherd is an unit leader and lecturer in contextual and theoretical studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Caitlin is an artist, researcher and educator concerned with making socially engaged site-specific artwork. Using sound and built structures as main mediums to explore personal stories of political systems, Caitlin uses installations, oral histories and sound documentary to explore themes of class identity, social mobility and economic inequality. Currently a PhD candidate at UWE DCRC, part of the 3d3 consortium. Caitlin’s research examines how working-class identity and experience is excluded from contemporary art discourse and practice, with a particular focus on relational aesthetics.