'25 Trees between Bridlington School and Morrison's supermarket along Bessingby Road in the Semi-Egyptian style'.
For anyone who, like me, is feeling a bit melancholy about 'Bigger Trees Near Warter' being uprooted from the Ferens after 18th September before being replanted in Bradford in October, news of a new exhibition opening on 14th September at Salts Mill, Saltaire, will hopefully cheer you up. Martin Wainwright writes on The Northerner blog that '25 Trees and Other Pictures by David Hockney', is "a preview of Hockney's vast Royal Academy tribute" (which opens in January 2012) which also "celebrates the 'extraordinary ordinary'" and also features "previously unseen portraits of Yorkshire friends and scores of the artist's iPad paintings which are not going to London". The exhibition will also feature a triptych with the above, unmistakably Hockneyesque title, each picture measuring 27 feet long, depicting the scene in summer, autumn and winter. It will be very interesting to see how it compares to the triptych arrangement of 'Bigger Trees..' at the Ferens. And with a title like that, it must surely be easier to find those 25 trees than the ones near Warter.
Post Author CM
Thanks so much for this post, I had no idea about this exhibition! I will be going - no question.
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