Artist David Hockney will unveil a serious new work this spring at Turner Modern in Margate, UK, as a part of the gallery’s fifteenth anniversary celebrations. “Measuring seven by ten metres, Hockney’s work will rework the gallery’s iconic floor-to-ceiling window within the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s seashores and the North Sea,” an announcement says.
The brand new window work (1 April-1 November) will depict a dawn in Normandy primarily based on a piece Hockney made in 2020 as an iPad portray. “Illuminated at night time, the work turns into some extent of sunshine on the seafront,” says Clarrie Wallis, the director of Turner Modern. In response to its annual report, Turner Modern drew greater than 322,000 guests from 2023 to 2024 (yr ending 31 March 2024).
The gallery, which opened in 2011, is impressed by the life and work of the 18th-century British artist JMW Turner who has additionally been a touchstone for Hockney. In 2007, the Bradford-born artist co-curated an exhibition of Turner’s watercolours at Tate Britain in London.
The urge for food for Hockney reveals no signal of slowing down within the UK. The Serpentine Galleries’ first-ever present by the octogenarian artist opens subsequent month (12 March-23 August 2026). “The exhibition unveils a brand new physique of labor by the celebrated British artist, comprising 5 still-lifes alongside 5 portraits that depict members of the artist’s shut circle, together with his household and carers,” an announcement from the London-based gallery says.
The present may also characteristic A Yr in Normandy (2020-21), a 90m-long frieze impressed by the Bayeux Tapestry, exhibiting the change of seasons on the artist’s former studio in Normandy. The Bayeux Tapestry is because of go on present on the British Museum later this yr.
Earlier this yr Hockney stated that bringing the tapestry to London this autumn is “insanity”, including that the “lovely in addition to traditionally essential” masterpiece may very well be broken in transit, a declare refuted by the museum director, Nicholas Cullinan.
Hockney reveals are a confirmed crowd-pleaser; his retrospective at Tate Britain in 2017 drew greater than 478,000 guests. The biggest-ever exhibition on the British artist additionally took over your complete Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris final yr, attracting hundreds of tourists.
