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

Early life

David Hepher was born in

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and then at

Slade School of Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

. 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 Camberwell Grove is a residential street in Camberwell, London, England, in the Borough of Southwark. It follows the line of a grove of trees, hence the name. The street once led from a Tudor manor house south to the top of a hill, which aff ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

, in 1961 and has lived there ever since.

Career

His work lies in between conceptual and traditional. His work has been exhibited in the

Serpentine Gallery The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Gallery, ...

, Flowers Gallery, Mappin Art Gallery,

Whitechapel Art Gallery The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The original building, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opened in 1901 as one of the fir ...

Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Roy ...

, Ikon Gallery and

Tate Britain Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...

,. He is featured in the two parts

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documentary: "Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry", where he was interviewed by Jonathan Meades.

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 The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. It was divided in 1994 to form the Arts Council of England (now Arts Council England), the Scottish Arts Council (l ...

: ''Study'', 1993 : ''Number'', 1972 ; Bradford Museum and Art Gallery : ''Windows of No. 19'' ;

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...

: ''The Windows of Number 22'' ;

Museum of London The Museum of London is a museum in London, covering the history of the UK's capital city from prehistoric to modern times. It was formed in 1976 by amalgamating collections previously held by the City Corporation at the Guildhall, London, Gui ...

: ''Camberwell Flats'', (by day), 1983 : ''Camberwell Nocturne'', 1984 ;

Tate Gallery Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

: ''Albany Flats'', 1972 ;

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

: ''Camberwell Flats'', 1984

Bibliography

Exhibition Catalogues *''David Hepher: The Windows of the

Brandon Estate The Brandon Estate is a social housing estate in London Borough of Southwark, south London. Situated to the south of Kennington Park, it was built in 1958 by the London County Council, to designs by Edward Hollamby and Roger Westman. History ...

– An Elegy to Tall Buildings'' atalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 1999London. *''David Hepher'' atalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 2002London. *''David Hepher'' atalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 2008London. Monographs *Lucie-Smith, E. (1996) ''David Hepher.'' Momentum, London.

References

External links

Hepher at Kingsplace Gallery
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Flowers Gallery
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