Caitlin Shepherd

I’m an artist and educator, with side hustles often on the go. I work in mixed media and amongst other things, use print design, film and photography collage, sound and écriture féminine (Cixous) to explore and listen to personal stories of everyday life. 

I have a particular interest in listening into lived experiences of multi-cultural working-class identity, the working conditions in the creative and cultural industries (CCI’s), precarity, chronic stress fractures, and socio-economic inequality. I’ve been involved in a range of social and economic justice campaigns alongside working as an artist-educator. 

I’m deeply interested in how money, work, our bodies, sexuality, gender, health and access to education shapes access to secure and equitable employment, and everything that is enabled (or not) through secure and fairly paid work. My PhD (2015 - 2023) examined how intersectional working-class experience is excluded from socially engaged art (and the creative industries at large) and studied how queer convivial listening practices might help to better understand and challenge such inequities and exclusions.