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