Alice Sheppard Fidler
Sheppard Fidler builds sculptures and installations and uses her body within the work, taking the mundane and transforming it through a process of re-construction and re-configuration. The work derives from what she refers to as ‘the rubbing up against the everyday’.
The tools and language of a past creative practice in set design act as material for the work, as does the action of reuse, not just for environmental concerns but as a way of accessing the stored narratives within materials.
She thinks of the works as ‘temporary stagings’ in which the transience of the work is key, whether it is an object that can be packed away or a performance which cannot be repeated. The work seeks to control the human figure by appearing on the point of departure, encouraging immersion in the moment.
Sheppard Fidler currently lives and works near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Works
Transience and Permanence
The installations in this body of work focus on something impermanent, something passing, rather than something present.
Boundaries and Disorientation
In this series of works the same everyday objects are used, however, is not clear where one work ends and the next begins. Familiarity and disorientation are used in equal measure.
Transformation - Space and Scale
The major function of these works is to activate and control the figure within the space, working with the fixed parameters that are always present: the scale of the space and the scale of the human form, even if the human form is absent.
The Rule
The Rule, while being a piece of sculpture, is a tool for examining new spatial boundaries and the effects associated with physical separation.