Description
Discover how David Hockney was transformed from a talented northern artist to world famous icon in this special talk as art of the festival’s Hockney Day celebrations.
Marking 70 years since Hockney first went to Bradford School of Art, art critic and writer James Cahill, author of David Hockney (Lives of the Artists), will discuss the importance of this period and how it shaped Hockney’s early work.
In-conversation with Jill Iredale, James will also show how Hockney made his mark in Swinging London during the 1960s as a portraitist, and went on to make a big splash in Los Angeles when he moved there in the 1970s. Here, his figurative paintings captured the zeitgeist of West Coast living.
This talk is the perfect opportunity to explore the early career of one of the world’s greatest artists.
About the Authors
Jill Iredale
Jill Iredale is a Curator at Bradford District Museums & Galleries. She has created numerous exhibitions with Bradford’s public collection of works by David Hockney, including the David Hockney Gallery at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. She is currently experimenting with ways of curating with collections and involving communities.
James Cahill
James Cahill is a writer based in London. His short biography of David Hockney was published in 2021 by Laurence King. His debut novel, Tiepolo Blue, was published in 2022 by Sceptre, and was recently shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. His second novel, The Violet Hour, is due in 2024. His writing has appeared in publications including Frieze, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. He was the lead author and consulting editor of Flying Too Close to the Sun (Phaidon Books, 2018), a survey of classical myth in art from antiquity to the present day.
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