David Hepher

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David Hepher
Born (1935-01-22) 22 January 1935 (age 88)
NationalityBritish
Education Camberwell School of Art
Occupation Painter

David Hepher (born Surrey, [1] England, 1935) [2] [3] is a British artist, [2] best known for his paintings of buildings, [4] landscapes, especially tower blocks, including the Aylesbury Estate:

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The Aylesbury Estate is... the remarkable leitmotif of [his] work as a painter… the Aylesbury is to Hepher what the Stour valley was to Constable or the Medway to Turner. [5]

Early life

David Hepher was born in Surrey. He studied at Camberwell School of Art [6] and then at Slade School of Art. [1]

He later became a Senior lecturer in painting at Chelsea School of Art from 1981 to 1990. Since 2001 he became a professor and head of undergraduate painting at Slade School of Fine Art.

He bought a house in Camberwell Grove, England, in 1961 and has lived there ever since. [7]

Career

His work has been exhibited in the Serpentine Gallery, Flowers Gallery, Mappin Art Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Ikon Gallery and Tate Britain,. [8]

He is featured in the two parts BBC Four documentary: "Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry", where he was interviewed by Jonathan Meades. [9]

Collections

Arts Council Collection
Arrangement in Turquoise and Cream 1 1979–1981
Five Working Drawings 1979–81
Study for 'Arrangement in Turquoise and Cream 1981
British Arts Council
Study, 1993
Number, 1972
Bradford Museum and Art Gallery
Windows of No. 19
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen
The Windows of Number 22
Museum of London
Camberwell Flats, (by day), 1983
Camberwell Nocturne, 1984
Tate Gallery
Albany Flats, 1972
Victoria and Albert Museum
Camberwell Flats, 1984

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Exhibition Catalogues

Monographs

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References

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  2. 1 2 "David Hepher". Artnet. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  3. Birthdays, Guardian, London, 22 January 2022. G2, p. 9.
  4. "David Hepher". Architects Journal. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  5. Paul Barker, Estate of the nation , The i, 1 February 2012
  6. "Transpontine: David Hepher's beautiful tower blocks" . Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  7. "Camberwell Grove". The Secret History of Our Streets. Series 1. Episode 2. 13 June 2012. BBC. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  8. "Albany Flats by David Hepher". Tate Collection. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  9. "Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry" . Retrieved 26 February 2014.