David Heathcote
{{short description|British artist (born 1931)}}
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David Heathcote (born 1931) is a British artist, collector and academic. During the 1960s and 1970s he assembled a significant collection of Hausa textiles, costume and leather-work, much of which is now in the British Museum.
Biography
David Hunter Heathcote was born in London in 1931. He studied at Canterbury College of Art and the Slade School of Art during the late 1950s. Heathcote then worked for twenty years in Zimbabwe and Nigeria, an experience that would contribute significantly to his creative output. He took up a teaching post in Zimbabwe in 1959 and had his first one-person show in Harare in 1967. From 1967 to 1979 he was Head of Art History at Ahmadu Bello University.{{cite web|url= https://www.gvart.co.uk/david-heathcote |title=David Heathcote|accessdate=19 September 2023}}
Heathcote returned to England and settled in Canterbury in 1979, working on his own paintings for several years. He then obtained a part-time post at Christ Church College, later becoming a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art and Design. He retired from the college in 1996 but continued to practice as an artist.{{cite web|url= https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/David-Heathcote--Beyond-Horizons/8F3530F464C0DEDE|title=David Heathcote|accessdate=19 September 2023}}
Heathcote's PhD dissertation on The Embroidery of Hausa Dress is deposited in the archives of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, along with other related material.{{cite web|url= https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16747071 |title=School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) papers relating to research in Hausa art and embroidery|accessdate=19 September 2023}}
During the 1960s and 1970s, Heathcote was a major collector of Hausa artifacts, including textiles, costume and leather-work. He also undertook ground-breaking research into Hausa costume, including the embroidery of Hausa dress. He mounted a full-scale Hausa exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute in 1976, writing the catalogue and creating a documentary film. The British Museum subsequently acquired many of the objects from the exhibition, which was also covered by the BBC's African Service. The British Museum's online catalogue lists some 391 objects associated with Heathcote.{{cite book|author=David Heathcote|title=The Arts of the Hausa. Catalogue of the World of Islam Festival Exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute, London.|date=1976|publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0226688992}}{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/201165009|title=Hausa Art in Northern Nigeria|author=David Heathcote|date=1978|accessdate=19 September 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/DC%20Metadata%20Files/Centre%20for%20African%20Literary%20Studies/ALS%204_5_2_3_16/ALS%204_5_2_3_16.pdf|title=Arts and Africa No. 120 (transcript of broadcast in 1976)|publisher=BBC African Service|accessdate=9 October 2023}}{{cite web|url= https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG124267 |title=British Museum biography for David Heathcote|accessdate=20 September 2023}}.
Heathcote's artworks are in the Slade School of Art, the University of Kent and other public and private collections.{{cite web|url= https://collections.ucl.ac.uk/Details/collect/20006012|title=UCL Collections. David Heathcote, Boy and Girl, Seated|accessdate=20 September 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://collections.ucl.ac.uk/Details/collect/20006013|title=UCL Collections. David Heathcote, Seated Girl|accessdate=20 September 2023}}
Exhibitions
Heathcote's work has been included in exhibitions starting with the 1958 Young Contemporaries touring exhibition.{{cite web |title=David Heathcote (b. 1931) |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6196703 |website=Christie's |access-date=22 September 2023}}
- 2011 Beyond Horizons, GV Art, Chiltern Street, London (solo){{cite web|url= https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58bd99fb2994ca1d92720ca7/t/58beb2026a4963902962832b/1488892440903/David+Heathcote+catalogue.pdf|title=Beyond Horizons |publisher=GV Art|date=2011|accessdate=19 September 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://artdaily.cc/news/45317/Remarkable-Selection-of-Works-from-David-Heathcote-s-Artistic-and-Academic-Career-at-GV-Art-Gallery|title=Remarkable Selection of Works from David Heathcote's Artistic and Academic Career at GV Art Gallery |publisher=Art Daily|date=28 February 2011|accessdate=9 October 2023}}
- 2013 Beyond Horizons, Beckel Odille Boïcos Gallery, Paris, with GV Art (solo){{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtrrUD5YUA&ab_channel=GVArtLondon|title=David Heathcote - Beyond Horizons, Paris|website=YouTube |date=2013|accessdate=19 September 2023}}
- 2014 Numberless Islands, GV Art, Chiltern Street, London (solo) {{cite web|url= https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58bd99fb2994ca1d92720ca7/t/606c1e3dd12d693a1a2aa278/1617698383723/David+Heathcote%2C+Numberless+Islands+-+catalogue.pdf|title=Numberless islands |publisher=GV Art|date=2014|accessdate=19 September 2023}}
- 2017 Travels in Arcadia, Norman Plastow Gallery, Wimbledon, with GV Art (solo){{cite web|url=https://www.gvart.co.uk/events/2017/6/20/david-heathcote-travels-in-arcadia-friday-5-may-until-saturday-15-may-2017|title=Beyond Arcadia|date=2017|accessdate=19 September 2023}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.gvart.co.uk/david-heathcote GV Art webpage for David Heathcote]
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