Having just left Ferens after my penultimate 'Bigger Trees..' invigilation stint, I finally got round to buying this month's 'Harper's Bazaar' magazine. I bought it on the strength of the 'Alexa Chung meets Marianne Faithfull' coverline, and articles on Lucien Freud and Jenny Saville (plus a gorgeous Tracey Emin neon artwork illustrating a Jeanette Winterson story). So plenty to make it worth buying. It was only when I began reading the Alexa Chung article that I discovered an even more exciting reason, by chance - the photos accompanying the article were shot in David Hockney's 1960s Notting Hill flat! As Stephanie Rafanelli writes "it was here that Hockney lived and worked in his 'Young Contemporaries' days (the 1961 RBA Galleries exhibition alongside Peter Blake that marked the beginnings of British Pop Art), and where Andy Warhol later attended the artist's notorious Saturday tea parties, filming the Swinging London scene". To see the place (still intact) where things I wrote about on this blog happened was yet another thrilling insight into Mr Hockney's world.
Later that evening, I was checking my emails, and had another one - via Artist and Illustrators magazine's monthly email. It linked to Editor Steve Pill's blog post about the press conference for next year's Royal Academy show. It's well worth reading (follow the link below), and I especially loved this observation: "in some special cases being creative isn't something that you can turn on and off, it's an unstoppable torrent that pours out at all times." Quite. The magazine will be running a full report and interview in its November issue.
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What a great flat!
The above photo is by the amazing photographer Ellen von Unwerth and is taken from this months Harpers Bazaar Uk http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/
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