The Wood (HMD VR) Immersive- interactive, practice-research space.
The wood (2026), is a virtual immersive space where the interdisciplinary work, produced since 2007, can be encountered as one would in a virtual gallery. It is also the site in which VR UX is designed and tested in an academic research project entitled, Shepherds Shield: Beyond the panic button (2026). Tracking practice-based artists research acquired grom 2007 to 2026, it includes artists sketchbooks, animation, video, interactive sculpture, kinetic projection screens, cyanotype prints, HMD covers, facemasks and various other experimental work produced in digital, studio, natural and virtual environments. Shepherd's shield explotes if embedding a set of design principles informed by women with lived experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) could leads to safer experiences for women in virtual and potenrially real-world physical spaces, forms part of a new academic research project.
