Celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary, David Hockney’s Sunley Window focuses on the nature of light.
Celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary, David Hockney’s Sunley Window focuses on the nature of light and the many ways its effects can be represented pictorially.
The sunrise presented in the gallery's Sunley Window originates from a work Hockney made in Normandy. 27th April 2020, No.1 is one of over 200 iPad paintings the artist produced in this location in 2020, when the rhythms of the landscape became a sustained focus of his practice.
Reimagined at architectural scale and illuminated after dark, the image transforms the gallery’s window into a luminous field, inviting renewed attention to light, colour, and the changing seasons.
The window will be illuminated every evening until 11pm, allowing visitors to view it from outside.
David Hockney: Sunley Window 2026 is the second in an annual recurring programme inviting artists to reimagine the gallery’s window as a public-facing artwork engaging with light, architecture and the surrounding environment.
The installation coincides with a major exhibition by David Hockney titled A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting, presented at Serpentine North, London, 12 March–23 August 2026.
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