David Hockney: Portraits in Print reveals lesser-known aspects of the celebrated artist

By Alex Burchmore, Senior Lecturer, Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University

I first fell under the spell of David Hockney’s prints as a student of printmaking and life drawing. Australia had been my home for only a few years and I found a key to my experience of movement and growth in the series A Rake’s Progress (1961–63), completed after Hockney’s first journey from London to New York and back.

There was something about images such as The Arrival – with its promise of a new world, etched in floral plumes of red ink and spidery black lines dancing on the edge…

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