David thorpe artist biography
- British artist David Thorpe (*1972 in London) lives and works in London.
- David Thorpe was trained as a fine artist in the UK, selling paintings through Windsor and Eton Fine Arts Gallery and Brighton Fine Arts Gallery.
- David Thorpe is an artist based in London.
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Born 1972, London, United Kingdom.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Selected Press
Casey Kaplan Gallery, Artist Stories - David Thorpe, Casey Kaplan, 2020
This is Tomorrow, Review, David Thorpe: A Rare Beast, Henry Little, 9 August 2012
Art in America, David Thorpe, Matthew Israel,February 2011
Education
1991
Humberside University, Lincoln, BA (Hons) Fine Art
1996
Goldsmiths University, London, MA Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
(C) denotes that a catalogue was published with the exhibition.
2025
Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
2022
We have come to display but may come back to destroy, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
2019
Underground, Maureen Paley, London, UK
2017
David Thorpe, Lush Underground, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
2016
David Thorpe – Loved Underground, Meyer Riegger Berlin, Berlin Germany
2015
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2012
Maureen Paley, London, UK.
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK.
2010
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Casey Kaplan, New York, USA.
2009
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
David Thorpe was a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1972.
How much does a David Thorpe cost?
David Thorpe's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 170 USD to 55,126 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.What is David Thorpe's most expensive works on paper?
Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 55,126 USD for Do What You Have To Do, sold at Christie's London in 2011.Where can I see David Thorpe's works?
Numerous key galleries and museums such as Casey Kaplan have featured David Thorpe's work in the past.David Thorpe in the news
David Thorpe has been featured in articles for Glasstire, Two Coats of Paint and ArtDaily. The most recent article is This Isn’t Who It Would Be, If It Wasn’t Who It Is written for The Brooklyn Rail in February 2024. The artist died in 2010.- •
David Thorpe was born in London and studied at Humberside University in Hull and at Goldsmith’s College in London.
In an interview in 2001 with Stephen Hepworth Thorpe described his work: ‘These private hidden worlds come from films such as Diamonds are Forever, or Brian De Palma’s Body Double. I remember an amazing interior from a Peter Sellars film with a cocktail party going on in a front room full of rocks, rugs and bubbling streams with wooden bridges over them. There are very decorative buildings, with eclectic materials, a manic home-made-ness, a mad hybrid of progressive structural engineering, Barratt home and ritzy Hollywood producer. When I look at these kinds of buildings, I have a sort of fictional ideal of the lifestyle of the people inside. The fantasy makes the structures exciting. Looking at Bruce Goff’s work while knowing they were built for respected journalists, I can’t help fantasising. There is a house in Malibu, where I assume the guy who lives inside has got a six-pack, a white cat and must be hiding something. He has guns
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