Anthony Hepburn (British 1942-2015) §
Slab Built Box with Stripes, 1960s
Auction: 28 April 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
stripes in red and yellow, and white glaze
Dimensions
28cm high, 31cm across, 31cm deep (11in high, 12.25in across, 12.25in deep)
Provenance
Provenance
Gifted by Anthony Hepburn to Ann Sutton O.B.E.
Footnote
Having trained at Camberwell School of Art, where he was taught by Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Bryan Newman, Hepburn was also deeply influenced by the American movement in ceramics. His work can be compared with the 1960s West Coast movement known as Funk, even though Hepburn did not use the 'bawdy locker-room' images, such as tea pots with penis spouts for example - as those used by Robert Arneson. His work was dominated by slab built boxes, and plinths supporting simularcra telephones, a toaster and milk bottles. For Ann Sutton, Hepburn was 'the first exciting craft ceramics of our time', the embodiment of a new movement and spirit of young artists in the crafts movement of the late 1960s.
He exhibited a gallery of slab built boxes and slip-casts multiples at the Crafts Centre in 1969, where this current rare example probably originated.