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Tony Hepburn, Work Bench, 1988
clay, wood, metal and circular saw
58 x 84 x 20 in.

Tony Hepburn was born in Manchester, England, in 1942. He received degrees from the Camberwell College of Art in 1963 and London University in 1965. His work has been exhibited internationally, including shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the American Craft Museum, New York, and the Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Hepburn makes sculptures combining found objects and clay elements that are often interpretations—or "evocations"—of objects that have intrigued him. His earliest works were large-scale sculpted gates and totems, and in the mid-1980s he began a series of rural elegiac allegories based on the environment and people of upstate New York, where he resides.