Eve Shepherd

Eve Shepherd MRSS[1] (born 1976)[2] is a British sculptor.

Shepherd's Statue of Betty Campbell, in Cardiff

Early life and education

Shepherd was born in Sheffield in 1976. She started work, aged 17, as an apprentice to sculptor Anthony Bennett, and then joined the production resource company The Scenic Route,[3] with whom she worked from 1992 to 1997, latterly heading their sculpture department.[4] She studied sculpture at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2001–2002.[4]

Career

In 2008, Shepherd was commissioned to create a sculpture of Stephen Hawking for a garden at University of Cambridge,[5] but the project was not completed because of the death of its intended funder.[6]

Her bronze[7] statue of Welsh activist and head teacher Betty Campbell stands in Central Square in Cardiff and was unveiled in 2021. It is said to be "the first statue of a named, real woman in Wales".[8][9][10] The statue, which she won a competition to create, was described as "stunning", "triumphant" and intimate in detail" in Wales Online in 2021.[7]

In 2021, she won the competition to create a sculpture of Emily Williamson, founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, to be erected in Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden, Didsbury, Manchester, near Williamson's former home.[11] Her sculpture has been described as "striking and truly captivating".[12]

She was elected a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 1996 and of the Society of Portrait Sculptors in 2002.[13][4]

References
  1. "Eve Shepherd MRSS". sculptors.org.uk. Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  2. "Biography". Eve Shepherd. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  3. "Who we are". The Scenic Route. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. "Curriculum Vitae". Eve Shepherd. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  5. Underwood, Samuel (7 October 2008). "Brighton sculptor cast for statue of Hawking". The Argus. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  6. Shepherd, Eve. "Stephen Hawking - CODAworx". www.codaworx.com. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  7. Hitt, Carolyn (2 October 2021). "Betty Campbell's magnificent monument really is a new dawn for Wales". WalesOnline. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  8. "Betty Campbell statue sculptor chosen". BBC News. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  9. "Betty Campbell: Statue of Welsh black heroine unveiled". BBC News. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  10. Morris, Stephen (29 September 2021). "Wales honours Betty Campbell, country's first black headteacher". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  11. "Eve Shepherd". emilywilliamsonstatue.com. 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  12. Britton, Paul (16 November 2021). "Winning design selected for statue in Didsbury of RSPB founder Emily Williamson". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  13. "Eve Shepherd MRSS". Society of Portrait Sculptors. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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