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Annely Juda Fine Art is delighted to present ‘David Hockney: iPhone and iPad drawings 2009-2012 and New Photographic Drawings’, which features 27 limited edition prints created either on the iPhone or iPad, along with new ‘Photographic Drawing’ editions. The exhibition will run from 16th July – 31st August 2018.

The 27 iPhone and iPad drawings in this exhibition result from Hockney’s indefatigable interest in exploring the possibilities of image-making, utilising and pioneering new technologies. With his extraordinary eye for detail, he takes the seemingly mundane objects of everyday life and creates imposing images bursting with colour, pattern and line. 

The convenience of being able to work with a small hand-held device, such as the iPhone, with endless possibilities of multiple colour and mark-making effects, enables a new intimacy and immediacy seen in this series of images. The artist draws and paints whatever catches his eye, whether a robe hanging on a bathroom door, a phone charger and cable, a vase of flowers, a single wine glass or his own portrait in a reflection. The resulting images portray his mind-set of ‘Love-Life’, creating a visual autobiography of his surroundings.

Also on view will be four new ‘Photographic Drawings’. By making composite images of photographs and paintings, Hockney amalgamates various viewpoints of interior scenes in his LA studio, deliberately altering perspective and throwing our traditional understanding of depth off kilter. Recent works have furthered this exploration by deviating from the standard square or rectangular canvas. This can be seen in ‘Focus Moving’, whereby the six-sided format attempts to further transcend the limitations of conventional space. The printed images are mounted onto Dibond, a type of aluminium, giving them a sense of three dimensionality.