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'''David Hepher''' (born 1935) is a British artist,<ref name="Artnet" /> best known for his paintings of buildings,<ref name="ArchitectsJournal">{{cite web|url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/david-hepher/631.contributor|title=David Hepher|work=Architects Journal|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref> landscapes, especially tower blocks, including the Aylesbury Estate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/art/features/david-hepher-estate-of-the-nation-6297530.html|title=David Hepher: Estate of the nation|date=31 January 2012|last=Barker|first=Paul|website=The Independent}}</ref>
==Early life== David Hepher was born in Surrey, England on 22 January 1935.<ref name="BritishCouncil">{{cite web|url=http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/theme/6/50/object/39632/0|title=Art Collection|publisher=British Council|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref><ref name="Artnet">{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/david-hepher/|title=David Hepher|work=Artnet|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref><ref>Birthdays, Guardian, London, 22 January 2022. ''G2'', p. 9.</ref> He studied at Camberwell School of Art<ref name="Transpontine">{{cite web|url=http://transpont.blogspot.com/2010/01/david-hephers-beautiful-tower-blocks.html|title=Transpontine: David Hepher's beautiful tower blocks|date=22 January 2010 |accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref> and then at Slade School of Art.<ref name="BritishCouncil" />
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.<ref>{{Cite episode |title= Camberwell Grove |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jzpm3|access-date= 13 June 2012 |series= The Secret History of Our Streets |network= BBC | date= 13 June 2012 |series-no= 1 |number= 2}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="TateCollection">{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=5963&searchid=10870&tabview=text|title=Albany Flats by David Hepher|work=Tate Collection|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref>
In 2014 he featured in the two-part BBC Four documentary: "Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry", where he was interviewed by Jonathan Meades.<ref name="BBC Four">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vrphc|title=Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry|access-date=26 February 2014}}</ref>
==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
==Bibliography==
'''Exhibition Catalogues''' *''David Hepher: The Windows of the Brandon Estate – An Elegy to Tall Buildings'' [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 1999] London. *''David Hepher'' [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 2002] London. *''David Hepher'' [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 2008] London. '''Monographs''' *Lucie-Smith, E. (1996) ''David Hepher.'' Momentum, London.
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/sites/default/files/kp-assets/pdf/KingsPlaceGallery/HEPHER_PUBLICATION.pdf Hepher at Kingsplace Gallery] * {{YouTube|jXJ7WEUPfbk|Film of Hepher}} * [http://mylondondiary.co.uk/2004/02/feb21-01.htm Hepher's studio in Camberwell, London] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140307061304/http://www.flowersgallery.com/artists/david-hepher/ Flowers Gallery]
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