David Sampethai was born in Athens in 1989. He studied Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art. He runs the independent publishing house Hideout Editions focusing on artist books.
 
He works across mediums including drawing, writing, music/sound, ceramics, artist books and tapestries, with painting always at the center.  He loves painting the most because he believes that it is the best way to say something you can’t exactly put your finger on.
 
Highly associative, often with a dark sense of humour, and driven by an endless curiosity and a sense of empathy, he creates worlds through a very personal form of storytelling that blurs the lines of narration techniques of different mediums and instigates a productive delay in looking and seeing.
 
His work is deeply layered with references from all across the board.  Kurt Vonnegut and William Burroughs books, Mark Fisher's The Weird and The Eerie, 90s kids films like Honey I Shrunk The Kids, medieval painting and Indian miniature painting, subcultures like rave and punk record covers, rap lyrics, 70s film noir films and many others are all ingrained within his worlds.