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20 Flowers For 2025 And Some Bigger Pictures by David Hockney

29 - 4 Jan 2026

10:00 - 16:00

Salts Mill

20 Flowers for 2025 and Some Bigger Pictures is the first time that Mr Hockney’s series of 20 iPad flower paintings and accompanying large-scale landscape and abstract works – “new looking fresh pictures of a very beautiful world”, as the artist says - have been exhibited in the UK outside of London.

Also on view for the first time in Europe is a 6-screen video installation with recordings of Mr Hockney’s brushstrokes on his iPad, showing the creation of ‘10th – 22nd June 2021, Water Lilies in the Pond with Pots of Flowers.’ Mr Hockney calls his iPad work “hand done in a new way.”
David Hockney has created one superb 3 metre by 5 metre work in this exhibition in which he appears not once but twice. In ‘25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed)’ two Mr Hockneys sit surveying the 20 Flowers, both with backs to the camera, white-capped and blue-suited, one smoking, the other not.

The work by this Bradford-born, world-renowned artist will delight visitors to Salts Mill and those who’ve come from far and wide to experience 2025, Bradford’s year as City of Culture.
20 Flowers for 2025 and Some Bigger Pictures is open from January 29th, Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-4pm, admission free. The show will open open throughout 2025. Salts Mill is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Always check our website or social media before visiting as our opening hours are subject to change.

David Hockney
"25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed)"
Photographic drawing
© David Hockney
assisted by Jonathan Wilkinson

Ticket Information

General Free

Venue Details

Salts Mill

Salts mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
BD18 3LA

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