Hockney at the Lightroom

A day out to the Kings Cross area of London to meet a friend and see the Hockney event at the Lightroom. This is a new venue which is a four storey high space equipped with the latest projection and audio technology. You sit surrounded by the huge screens on all four sides. This showed some of the varied work of a Hockney through his 60 years of being an artist in various phases and using different techniques/styles with him commentating.  Theatre design in the USA which I didn’t know about, the famous swimming pool pictures, canyons and hills around LA, observing nature in Yorkshire and Normandy etc and even a window in Westminster Abbey. I really like this work which I have seen in exhibitions before…which he did using an iPad in about 2019 I think. In the extra you can see a work he did by using lots of photos which he took and then assembled …there were several samples of this type of work of his. Maybe some blippers should try this!

After we had a lovely lunch in Dishoom ( Bombay cuisine) which is opposite, I love the food there and the general atmosphere and decor. Then a look in the  exhibition near the St Martins art school and a quick visit to Kings Place. Before lockdown we went to Kings Place at least a couple of times a year for a concert and there was always a nice coffee bar in the main atrium all day but tat is now deserted and not open.