Nathaniel Sheppard III

Nathaniel Sheppard III (b. 1989 – Washington, USA) is a visual artist and
printmaker, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. His heritage spans from
a Christian African American to Muslim South African Coloured one
and his formative years were spent in Chicago and Los Angeles, where he
pursued his studies in architecture – at the Southern California Institute of
Architecture (SCI-ARC). He immigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa
where he enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) to study
Fine Arts and found a keen interest in printmaking. Having worked at
David Krut Projects, he observes and applies the collective practice ethos
of printmaking in South Africa.
Sheppard co-founded Danger Gevaar Ingozi Studio in 2016 and explores
how printmaking afforded South Africans the autonomy to control the

means of their production; for example the printing of struggle posters/t-
shirts/banners and other media on the struggle.

Using archival material and visual media in particular, he makes collages,
which are then translated into different printmaking mediums and
paintings and pays homage to the various printing techniques used in the
global south and during several civil uprisings and collage artists from both a
South African and African American perspective.