She has worked in collaboration with renowned artists and directors such as Aaron Beall, Karin Coonrod, Elaine Summers, Richard Foreman, Dino Lupelli, Randolph Curtis Rand and Gh Hovagimyan.
For live performances she has collaborated with the following musicians: Rhys Chatham, David Watson, Peter Zummo, Kevin Shea, Laura Ortman, Algis Kizys, Vincent Signorelli, Lynn Wright, Eric Hubel, Katarina Raska and Anna Liisa Eller.
Shirley is daughter of Hunter B. Shirley, a psychologist and theoretician, and Anne Couelle from the French Couelle family, known for their reconstruction of churches, export of historical churches including part of the New York city Cloisters, stone quarry and architecture.
Between 1997 and 2002, she worked as a studio assistant for Nam June Paik, the US-based Korean artist and founder of video art, assisting him in the development with Norman Ballard of a number of public laser works displayed at the Olympic Park Lake in Seoul, Korea and in his Retrospective "The Worlds of Nam June Paik" at the S.R.Guggenheim, New York U.S.A. and Bilbao, Spain.
Since 2005 she has been an active contributor for the restoration and preservation of Nam June Paik CRt based art works for Museums around the world.
She has extended her efforts in collaboration with CTL Electronics Inc. to help museums and private collections in the restoration of numerous new media artworks of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Diana Thater, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Robert Irwin to name a few.
This installation was curated by Torill Haugen at the Utsikten Kunstsenter Art Center in Kvinesdal, Norway.
For these installations Shirley used silicone and bronze, bathed in lasers, fog and dense soundscapes, to create a language of architecture and urban space both ancient and futuristic, terrifying and utopian.
Double is a combination of an outer aluminium disk and a second low-relief wood painted with a neon ring affixed to its face.
The whole is perceptually concave or convex, dark or reflective depending on the viewing angle and ambient lighting.
In this work the accumulated paint on the front surface is reminiscent of lunar craters or refers to abstractions of the Colour Field movement.
6.6 and 4 is a sculpture consisting of a concentric wooden ringed structure that expands outwards from the wall in a concave quarter sphere, a silver aluminium disk and neon.
The wood is left natural frontally, Dutch metal leafed on its back and is backlit with a white neon strip.