Andrew Heard

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Andrew Heard
Born
Andrew Heard

(1958-08-21)21 August 1958
Hertford, England
Died9 January 1993(1993-01-09) (aged 34)
London, England
NationalityBritish

Andrew Heard (21 August 1958 – 9 January 1993) was a British artist.

Biography[edit]

Heard was born in Hertford on 21 August 1958. He studied Art History at London University and at Chelsea School of Art, London. He lived in West Berlin for a period and some of his early successes were one-man shows were at the Friedman-Guinness Gallery in Germany: at Heidelberg in 1987 and Frankfurt in 1989. He also had solo exhibitions in the 1980s in Athens, Amsterdam, Paris and Zurich. From 1983 he shared a studio with the poet and artist David Robilliard. Heard died of AIDS in London in 1993.[1][2]

New directions in his work are marked by large Strange Fruit canvases.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "iniva: Andrew Heard". www.iniva.org. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Andrew Heard". The Independent. 12 January 1993. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Obituary: Andrew Heard". The Independent. 12 January 1993. Retrieved 27 July 2020.