The work of David Hockney will be celebrated with a special screening and conversation with award winning director Bruno Wollheim at Cartwright Hall.
The free event will commemorate Bigger Trees Near Warter, the respected artist’s largest and most ambitious work to date, being on display at the Bradford Council-run venue.
"David Hockney: A Bigger Picture”, which follows the Bradford-born artist over a three-year period as he paints the East Yorkshire landscape, will be screened on Sunday, 5 February between 1-2.30pm.
Bruno Wollheim had unprecedented access to the notoriously elusive artist when filming the documentary, which was originally screened on BBC1 in June 2009.
It provides revealing insights into the artist’s work including his views on photography and its place in his art, about painting as an extreme sport, and how pictures are the product of subjective experience.
It also follows him as he works on canvases in the open air, including setting up an easel with his assistant to start on Bigger Trees Near Warter. This impressive piece of work is comprised of 50 separate panels and it features two copses, a huge sycamore tree, buildings and early flowering daffodils.
The highly acclaimed painting will be on display at Cartwright Hall until Sunday, 4 March. Entry is free.
Coun David Green, Bradford Council’s Executive Member responsible for Culture, said: "There has already been a huge amount of interest in this painting since it went on display last October, but I hope this special screening and conversation with Bruno Wollheim will encourage many more people to visit the venue and gain an appreciation of the Bradford-born artist’s work.”
Widely regarded as one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century, Hockney is currently the subject of a major new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture will feature two pictures loaned from Bradford Museums and Galleries, alongside iPad drawings and films of the Yorkshire countryside.
The Bigger Trees Near Warter exhibition is funded by Arts Council England and was brought to Bradford as part of Art in Yorkshire - supported by Tate, a year long celebration of the visual arts in 19 galleries throughout Yorkshire.
Other Hockney works can be viewed all year round in Bradford Museum and Galleries’ permanent collections.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery is open from 10am-4pm Tuesday – Friday; and 11am-4pm Saturday and Sunday. For more information please visit www.bradfordmuseums.org
