The ensuing years were marked by increasingly acclaimed appearances, most recently Futurism Updated at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London (2009), which was curated and presented by Shiel, as well as making use of his sculptures.

The event was a concert marking the centenary of the publication of the Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and was followed by the conference Theatre Noise, at which Shiel led a sound workshop.

[5] More recently, there have been Shiel solo exhibitions at the Gallery Oldham, near Manchester in 2003, and at the Festival of Sound, in Cork, the Republic of Ireland, in 2005.

His lecture, Why and How David Jones Became a Poet was subsequently published by The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in England, and Flashpoint magazine in America.

(1981), a one-man show, and Landing Site, an environmental performance at St James's Piccadilly (1981), both starring Colin Harris.

As part of his Artist-in-Residence tenure at the Estorick Collection, he performed on his sound sculptures as accompaniment to a puppet show with Lindey Wright.

The film includes interviews with art critic Richard Cork, Welsh poets Gillian Clarke, Owen Sheers, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.