David Thorpe (b. 1972)
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David Thorpe (b. 1972)

We Never Sleep

Details
David Thorpe (b. 1972)
We Never Sleep
paper collage on paper
36¼ x 68½in. (92 x 174cm.)
Executed in 1998
Provenance
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Literature
M. Holborn and F. Huber (eds.), The Triumph of Painting, London 2005 (illustrated in colour, p. 329).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 20% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium

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Lot Essay

David Thorpe's work is concerned with the relationship between objects and their makers, with a particular interest in the role of craft and labour in handmade design and art. 'I'm playing with certain associations,' he has said, 'slightly New Age, slightly Space Age, slightly threatening. I'm absolutely in love with people who build up their own systems of belief.' This idea is reflected in works that variously reference modernist principles of object-making, utopian social architecture, Japanese woodblock prints, and Victorian paper-cutting.

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