Nationality British Occupation Painter | Name David Hepher Role Artist | |
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Education Camberwell College of Arts Books David Hepher: the windows of the Brandon Estate : an elegy to tall buildings : 29 January-28 February, 1999 | ||
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David Hepher (born Surrey, England, 1935) is a British artist, best known for his paintings of buildings, 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.
MATTHEW FLOWERS CONTEMPORARY - David Hepher
Early life
David Hepher was born in Surrey. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and then at Slade School of Art.
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, London, 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, Flowers Gallery, Mappin Art Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Ikon Gallery and Tate Britain,.
He is featured in the two parts BBC Four documentary: "Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry", where he was interviewed by Jonathan Meades.