Tree House Mural Tea Towel

Accompanying the exhibition, Serpentine presents a large-scale printed mural by David Hockney in the garden at Serpentine North. The work highlights a scene from A Year in Normandie’s spring cycle depicting a tree house. The monumental digital print will be displayed at the back of the North Gallery, echoing its creation in David Hockney’s own garden in Normandy.

David Hockney

David Hockney (b. 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK) is one of the most influential artists of our time. Throughout his seven-decade spanning career, the British artist remains endlessly inventive and committed to celebrating the world around him, epitomised by his signature phrase, “Love Life.” A deep fascination with perspective and a desire to investigate how we see and represent the world led him to explore a range of artistic mediums from painting to photographic collages, set design, drawing and printmaking. Hockney’s use of new technology is an extension of his interest in different modes of capturing reality. From his Polaroid composites to fax machine drawings and, in recent years, his iPad paintings, he seeks to unlock the potential of each technology for the creation of art.