David Hockney created some of the most recognisable art pieces in the modern world. Everyone knows his evocative California swimming pools and Yorkshire landscapes; but this familiarity can obscure the restless reinvention that powered the artist behind them.
In this episode, Mia Sorenti speaks with writer and cultural commentator Paul Morley about Hockney’s life through the places that shaped him: postwar Bradford, swinging London, Los Angeles, Paris, Yorkshire and Normandy. How did changing landscapes make Hockney the artist he was? How did he carry his northern identity into the wider world? And what does his life reveal about class, sexuality, technology and the changing character of Britain?
Paul Morley is a writer and cultural commentator whose books include The North (And Almost Everything in It), From Manchester with Love and The Age of Bowie. His new biography is David Hockney: An Artist for Life.
Mia Sorenti is Senior Producer at Intelligence Squared.
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