Education
Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping studied at Goldsmith"s College, London, and later at the Royal Academy.
Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping studied at Goldsmith"s College, London, and later at the Royal Academy.
Skeaping was the first husband of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, with whom he exhibited during the 1920s. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1960. He latterly lived in Devon near the village of Chagford and moved to the Camargue, France in 1959.
A British Broadcasting Corporation documentaryOne Pair of Eyes - John Skeaping (1970) directed by David Cobham was produced for British Broadcasting Corporation television during Skeaping"s time there.
Marble heads dating from London, c. 1927 of Barbara Hepworth by Skeaping, and of Skeaping by Hepworth are documented by photograph in the Retrospective catalogue, but are both believed lost.
A bronze sketch (1978) of Skeaping exists by Sally Arnup.
He was a member of the London Group, and later worked for a period in Mexico.