Tapestries

Since 2012 Shipsey has conceived and commissioned fourteen monumental memorial tapestries. They have mainly been funded by artist supporters of Amnesty International including Bono and Edge of U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Yoko Ono, Paul Simon and John Legend, and honour, among others, Václav Havel, Seamus Heaney, Nelson Mandela, John Lennon and the people of Colombia and Greece.^{[15][16][17][18]} These tapestries are to be found at various airport and museum locations around the world. Eleven of the tapestries, the Amnesty-Sís-Pinton Tapestries, were designed by New York-based Czech artist Peter Sís. The tapestry for Colombia, "The Musicians", was designed by Fernando Botero.^[19] The tapestry for Greece, "I love Greece", was designed by Sophia Vari. The tapestry for Mexico, "El Holocausto", was created by Manuel Rodríguez Lozano. All but one were created by weavers at Ateliers Pinton in Felletin-Aubusson, France.^[20]

Bronze statuary

Since 2014 Shipsey has commissioned and promoted six bronze busts of Václav Havel, six of Eleanor Roosevelt and two of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in cities and universities around the world.

He has also been instrumental in promoting and placing several 'Havel's Place' memorial benches, designed by his late friend Bořek Šípek, in Dublin, Barcelona, Venice, The Hague, Lisbon and Ljubljana, to honour the late Czech President, playwright and dissident Václav Havel.^[21]

Azulejo murals

In 2018 he began to work with internationally recognised Azulejo maker Viuva Lamego in Lisbon to produce Azulejo murals, the traditional Portuguese majolica glazed tiles.

Bill Shipsey and Peter Sis partnered with the City of Lisbon to create a large Azulejo mural to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The 15 square meter mural of Sis' drawing "Si morg" was unveiled on 10 December 2018, on Human Rights Day, by Katerina Vaz Pinto, the cultural counsellor of the city de Lisbon.

In February 2019, Peter Sis was commissioned to design another Azujelo mural to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. This 70 metre long and 3.6-metre high mural is completed and awaits installation in Prague.

In 2020, a 10 square meter Ana Juan designed Azulejo mural, entitled "Solidarity", was commissioned by Shipsey for the city of Paris. It too has been created and is awaiting installation in Paris.

Anything Can Happen: A Poem and an Essay

Anything Can Happen: A Poem and an Essay, is a unique poetry book by Irish Poet Seamus Heaney. Based on Horace's Odes, Heaney reflects upon the relevance of art in the political context of the twenty-first century. It was translated into 23 languages, in association with Art for Amnesty and for the support of Amnesty International.

Windows On Elsewhere: 60 Refugees, 60 Views

A collaboration between Art for Amnesty, and Turin-based artist and architect Matteo Pericoli ^[22] which began in March 2018 gave rise to a unique project: Windows on Elsewhere, 60 Refugees, 60 views. The window view drawings of 60 refugees from around the world and their short stories of their journeys from 'elsewhere'.

This project was completed and launched in Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin in May 2021. It comprises a book in Italian published by Il Saggiatore and a limited-edition box set of drawings and stories by each of the 60 refugees in Italian, English, French and Spanish sponsored by the Lavazza Fondazione. The drawings and stories have been exhibited in Turin in 2021. Lugano in Switzerland in 2022 and is currently being exhibitied in Casa Seminario 12 in Mexico City since February 9th 2023.