[1] She specialises in printmaking and her work is held in national and international collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa[2] and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
In her early years as an artist she concentrated on small-scale, often modular pieces, that utilised women's traditional arts, including stitching, quilting, batik, and weaving.
Formed in 1982, the network was made up of Auckland women artists and art historians[7] and included Juliet Batten, Elizabeth Eastmond, Alexa Johnston, Claudia Pond Eyley, Priscilla Pitts, and Cheryll Sotheran.
[8] Shepheard taught at the Elam School of Fine Arts for sixteen years, holding teaching, administrative and managerial positions.
[5] At the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki she exhibited a solo show in 1991, Carole Shepheard: Essence and Shadow, and in 1993 was part of Unruly Practices, a series of solo projects by feminist artists living in Auckland, including works by Claudia Pond Eyley, Mary McIntyre, Christine Hellyar, Sylvia Siddell.