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David Robilliard was born on 1952 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, is a British poet and contemporary artist (1952–1988). Discover David Robilliard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 36 years old?

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Born 1952
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Birthplace Guernsey, Channel Islands
Date of death 1988
Died Place London, United Kingdom
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1952

David Robilliard (1952–1988) was a British poet and contemporary artist.

David Robilliard was born in 1952 in Guernsey.

1970

He frequented the London club and pub scene, a familiar presence in places such as Blitz, where Heard worked in the 1970s, Heaven and the Café de Paris, The Bell in King's Cross and The French House in Soho.

1975

He moved to London in 1975, accompanying his friend Lester Queripel, hoping to launch his career as a musician and a poet.

Robilliard did not have any formal training as a painter, but he had started writing poetry and making drawings in Guernsey.

1979

Robilliard met Gilbert & George around 1979, and became one of their models; he was charged with finding models for them in Soho, as well as the East and West Ends.

1981

He featured in the film The World of Gilbert and George in 1981, repeatedly stating the phrase "I am angry"; his character is described as a "Shot Youth" in the storyboard of the film.

Robilliard pursued his career in poetry during his early years in London.

His work was supported by Gilbert & George who also encouraged him to associate images to his written work.

1983

In London, he lived in the Shoreditch area, and shared a studio with Andrew Heard from 1983 onwards.

The artist was also his partner.

1984

They published his first poetry volume, Inevitable, in 1984.

His first exhibition of drawings in the same year, at the Stephen Bartley Gallery, was originally only meant as a backdrop to the book's launch.

Stephen Bartley describes the way the exhibition developed: "the exhibition was conceived at short notice in collaboration with Andrew Heard, most of the drawings (other than those used in the books) were done in the two weeks before the show. I suggested that David and Andrew hire a few frames so that the drawings could be hung as a backdrop to the party. I was amazed when they produced some 40 pieces and mounted a professional show. Everything was priced at £75, no catalogue was produced because we were concentrating on the book. One sale to Anthony d'Offay resulted. (...) The exhibition was taken down the day after as the frames had to be returned."

On the invitation card for the exhibition, Gilbert & George described Robilliard as "the new master of the modern person. Looking, thinking, feeling, seeing, bitching – he brilliantly encapsulates the 'Existers' spirit of our time."

His drawings were also exhibited at the Soho restaurant L'Escargot, where the first public reading of his poetry took place, performed by Stephen Chamberlain.

Robilliard did not want to perform his own poetry live; instead, he recruited people to perform his poetry for him.

This included artists such as Leo Burley, who relates his experience in "Memory of a Friend".

1987

Almost all of the 58 paintings he produced between 1987 and 1988 were portraits.

They are portraits of anonymous people he observed, as well as acquaintances and fellow artists such as Heard, Gilbert & George and Duggie Fields.

His second volume of poetry, Swallowing Helmets, was published in 1987.

Through 1987, Robilliard distributed shorter poems on postcards that were then sent through the post to a small mailing list (edition of 300).

The poems were printed on an old letterpress by the art dealer Paul Conran.

They distributed a poem card through the post each month in 1987.

In December 1987, the 12 poems cards were reprinted by Birch & Conran as A Box of Poems in an edition of 100 copies; the first 30 copies contained a live cassette recording of Robilliard reading each poem.

Robilliard's work was also frequently curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, who had met the artist in 1987.

1988

However, there are no traces of these early poems and drawings: according to Queripel in a letter to Gilbert & George dated 12 November 1988, he consistently destroyed his work as he did not want to be called a "sissy" by his friends.

Birch & Conran also posthumously published poem cards for November and December 1988.

His poem cards were also produced by Gilbert & George, Hercules Fisherman, Judy Adam and Lorcan O' Neill.

He also wrote books and published articles in The Fred, Square Peg and The Manipulator.

His artwork was exhibited at L'Escargot and the Hippodrome, a music venue on Charing Cross.

Robilliard was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1988.

He took to introducing himself as "David Robilliaids" after that point.

He died within the year.

1990

His work was shown in a posthumous exhibition in 1990, at the Hirsch & Adler Modern gallery in New York.

It was also included within the group exhibition The British Art Show 1990 at the Southbank Centre in London.

1993

Museum director Rudi Fuchs continued to champion his work, curating a retrospective in 1993 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam entitled A Roomful of Hungry Looks.

2014

He was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2014.

Currently, his artwork is exhibited at Tate Modern in London as well as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Other artwork is owned by the Arts Council Collection.