Tue 14 Jul
Starts 7.30pm
Running time 85 mins
Doors open 7pm. Bar.
Tickets £10
Online in advance (reserved seats)
or at the door from 7pm
The Drill Hall
Lower Church Street, Chepstow NP16 5HJ
As a timely tribute to the late great DAVID HOCKNEY, Exhibition on Screen have made available a film that they released for his 80th birthday celebrations in 2017:
DAVID HOCKNEY AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS: A Bigger Picture 2012 & 82 Portraits and One Still Life 2016
Hockney, one of the world's favourite contemporary artists and Britain's most popular and best loved, has attracted millions of visitors to his blockbuster exhibitions worldwide.
This Exhibition on Screen film featuring intimate and in-depth interviews offers rare insights into the man behind such iconic works as A Bigger Splash and A Closer Grand Canyon. In conversation with Tim Marlow (Artistic Director at the Royal Academy of Arts), Hockney reveals anecdotes from across his artistic and personal life - from his first trip abroad to Egypt in 1963, to the effects of the death of his close friend Jonathan Silver in 1997.
It also provides a rare chance to explore two of Hockney's landmark exhibitions from his late career, guided by the exhibitions' curatorial team and the artist himself. A Royal Academician since 1991, Hockney had a close relationship with the institution, creating both exhibitions specifically for the gallery spaces and thus making them entirely unique shows.
For A Bigger Picture Hockney returned to his native Yorkshire. This return to home was cathartic for Hockney and saw him capture the changing landscape through the seasons, using new techniques, not least iPad drawings and video. Four years later for 82 Portraits and One Still Life, Hockney also adopted a new mode of working, inviting sitters to his studio with a strict deadline of three days for each portrait. The 82 finished paintings are themselves one complete work...
