Biography

Trewin Copplestone was born in Dartmouth, Devon. Artist, publisher, lecturer, broadcaster and writer. Studied at Nottingham College of Arts and Crafts and Goldsmiths’ College of Art. Taught mural painting at Hammersmith College of Art, was also a visiting art history lecturer and editorial director and later director of publishing for the Hamlyn Group. Copplestone also ran his own publishing company, broadcast on television, including the London Weekend Television series Art for All and wrote and edited art books. He designed theatre sets and costumes for Bernard Miles’ Mermaid Theatre and the Margate Stage Theatre. Public works included the fibreglass Bull Forms for the Bull Ring Shopping Centre, Birmingham, 1963, and a mural for Carlisle Civic Centre, 1965. He participated in London mixed exhibitions, having a solo exhibition at the Mattiesen Gallery, 1957.