Dr Patrick Shepherd is a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the College of Education, Health and Human Development and the College of Science. As well as music education, his main research interests are synaesthesia — especially as it relates to creativity — and Antarctic art. He is an Antarctica NZ Honorary Antarctic Arts Fellow and travelled to Antarctica in 2004 and 2016/17. Much of his recent creative work is related to those trips.