Elizabeth Hepworth is a 22-year-old London and Berlin based painter.

'Mit charcoal Bill-Clinton' © Lucian Spatariu

“…the core of the work is simply picking at my perception of reality; the amazing fact that none of us will ever really know what reality is. All we have is our illusions. And mark making, in all its forms, is a way of exploring, questioning, adding to, playing – and essentially dealing with – that fact. It’s a desire to touch the untouchable. All my images and acts, no matter how stretched apart by approach or medium, are united by this in one way or another.” – Jotta Contemporary interview, December 2010

BIO.
Born 1989 in Hammersmith, London, of mixed Greek and British heritage.

Education
2010-Current – Bildende Kunst, Painting, Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin

2008-2010 – B.A (H) Fine Art: Painting, University of the Arts London: Wimbledon College of Art

2007-2008 – Foundation Diploma, University of the Arts London: Wimbledon College of Art (Distinction)

Solo Exhibitions
2009 – ‘Untwine’, The Foundry, London, UK
2009 – ‘Elizabeth Hepworth’s Stockroom Studio’, Richmond Council’s ArtHouse Festival, London, UK

Selected Solo Performances
2010 – Hounslow High Street, London 2012 Olympics: Open Weekend, London, UK
2009 – Tate Britain, London, UK
2009 – ‘We are young, we are new’, The Foundry, London, UK
2009 – The Elbow Room, London, UK
2009 – The Event Show, Olympia Exhibition Centre, London, UK

Selected group exhibitions
2013 – Candid Arts Centre, London, UK
2012 – ‘Dazed & Refused’, The Arch Gallery, London, UK
2012 – 24 | 12 | One: Dr Sketchy’s Berlin, DirektorenHaus, Berlin, Germany
2011 – ‘Bomberlin’, The Bussey Building, London, UK
2011 – ‘Nouveau Art Nouveau’, Tape Modern #21, Tape Club, Berlin, Germany
Annually since 2010 – 0.1 Original, UdK Berlin Rundgang, Berlin, Germany
2010 – Swiss Cottage Gallery, London, UK
2010 – IKAS art, Bilbao Exhibition Centre, Baracaldo, Spain
2010 – Lunasol gallery, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
2009 – Victoria House, London, UK
2009 – Xin Dan Wei Gallery, Shanghai, China
2009 – YAH, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, UK
2008 – International Mail Art Project, Tate Liverpool, UK
2008 – Old Romantics, Vernon Hall, London, UK

Selected Collaborations
2009 – Street Training (with Lottie Child), separate events funded by ArtsAdmin / The School of Life / Tate Britain, London, UK
2008 – Street Training (with Lottie Child), Public walks, weekly throughout July/August, London, UK

Selected Artist-Educator, Curation & Event Work
2012 Onwards – Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, Tutor of Life Drawing, Berlin, Germany
2011 – ‘Bomberlin’, Curation, organisation and closing lecture/Q&A, London, UK
2010 – Camberwell College of Art, artist speaker for ECCA Lecture, London, UK
2009 – National Portrait Gallery, guest artist, The Big Draw: ‘Zoom in / Zoom out’, London, UK
2009 – Latitude Festival, photographer and initiating public gaming for Hide & Seek, Suffolk, UK
2008 – Tate Liverpool, International mail art project co-curator and head project coordinator/ representative of the Tate Britain, Liverpool, UK
2008 – Tate Britain, ‘Life Drawing with a Twist’, creator and event leader, London, UK
2004 – 2006 – The Art Yard Studio, workshop assistant/leader, London, UK

Selected Gallery Talks
2009 – National Portrait Gallery, Francis Bacon by Ruskin Spear, London, UK
2009 – Tate Britain, ‘Elizabeth Hepworth on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’ for the staff/representatives of the BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art, London, UK
2009 – Tate Britain, as above, for the staff/representatives of the British Museum, London, UK
2008 – Tate Britain, ‘Meet the artist: Bob & Roberta Smith’, chairwoman/host, London, UK

Selected Press and Publications (more)
2012 – Wall Street Journal, ‘Experienz’ Article
2011 – Time Out magazine, Ossain Ward Reccomendation for ‘Bomberlin’
2011 – Feral Army Magazine Feature Interview http://www.feralarmy.com/viewarticle.aspx?ID=229
2010 – Jotta Contemporary Feature Interview http://www.jotta.com/jotta/published/home/article/v2-published/1246/elizabeth-hepworth-ecca-creative-enterprise-award-winner
2010 – ‘Tube of Paint’, The London Evening Standard Newspaper, feature
2010 – Aesthetica Magazine / Aesthetica Annual 2010, highly commended contemporary artist for ‘The Frowny Painting’
2010 – IKAS Art Spain, Exhibition Catalogue
2010 – ‘Artist Elizabeth Hepworth uses her head (and her tongue, and her feet)…‘, Hounslow & Brentford Times Newspaper
2010 – ‘8,000 see Elizabeth Hepworth paint‘
2010 – ‘Portraying artists portraying: Elizabeth Hepworth’, Einsfestival Germany, featured film (televised alternative to advertising)
2010 – 91.8 Hayes FM, Drivetime Show with Angela Kanwar, interview
2010 – ‘Bodies and Soul’, Rt Times Newspaper, feature
2010 – ‘The Great British Art Debate’, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums / Discovery Museum / Museums Sheffield / Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service, several interviews
2009 – ‘Elizabeth Hepworth…Art Slave!’ UJU For the Cool, feature article
2009 – Enterprise Centre for Creative & Arts Creative Careers London website & newsletter, feature article
2009 – Aesthetica Magazine / Aesthetica Annual 2010, highly commended contemporary artist for ‘Toby’
2009 – Chocolate Films Tate Britain Documentary, interview and feature
2009 – YourLocalLondon.com, ‘Elizabeth Hepworth opens studio to the public’, feature article
2009 – Tate.org.uk, ‘Loud Tate’ page, headlining fine artist
2009 – Interview, Resonance.104 FM
2009 – Foundry.TV, ‘we are young, we are new’ & ‘untwine’ feature article
2009 – TimeOut.com, takeover for ‘Loud Tate’
2009 – London Lite newspaper, for ‘Loud Tate’
2009 – Richmond Informer, recommended exhibition for ‘Elizabeth Hepworth’s Stockroom Studio’
2009 – ArtHouse Magazine, recommended exhibition for ‘Elizabeth Hepworth’s Stockroom Studio’

Collections
EP ArtHouse: Petter-Thompson Collection, London, UK
Several private collections, Europe & USA

Awards & Scholarships
2010 – Enterprise Centre for Creative Arts, Creative Enterprise Award: Successful Freelancer
2010 – Erasmus study program, Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin
2009 – Enterprise Centre for Creative Arts, Creative Enterprise Award: Successful Freelancer

Current Studio Location: Hardenbergstraße 33, 10623 Berlin