DAVID HOCKnEY: AND HIS QUEST FOR NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AND REPRESENTING

This lecture will celebrate the way in which David Hockney was always looking for new ways to represent the people and places most important to him. It will cover his ideas on: ‘reverse perspective’ based on his reflections on Cubism; his interest in photography and his photomontages (or joiners as he called them); his iPad drawings and sketches that began as doodles and finished as bona fide artworks; and his use of video installations to capture, for example, his beloved Yorkshire countryside. Hockney's embrace of new ideas and new technologies did not please all of the art establishment in Britain; but Hockney's enquiring mind and thirst for knowledge was never going to limit him - no matter what other people thought. And once, people had seen seen his panoramic multiple-perspective landscapes; or the simple beauty of his iPad drawings; or his multi-faceted video installations most people succumbed to his genius.

Raymond Warburton

Ray has had a life-long love of art. However, in his twenties, Ray studied social sciences at the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies. These studies led to a career in health and social care, with art being an evening and weekend passion. But all that changed in 2011, when Ray became a guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Then from 2014 to 2017, he studied art history at the Open University, and then at the University of Buckingham, from where he gained an MA in the History of Art. And to cap it all, Ray became an Arts Society lecturer in 2017. Ray also knows what it’s like to be on the receiving end of lectures as he is a member of his local Arts Society in Blackheath.