David Hockney’s newest work is on display at Annely Juda Fine Art’s Hanover Square space, in an exhibition running until February 28, 2026.
It is the artist’s 14th show with the gallery and presents a body of paintings that the gallery described as “very, very, very new.” The exhibition opened earlier this month.
The exhibition features a lively suite of work created in Hockney’s London studio over the past six months, along with the first full UK exhibition of The Moon Room, a series of 15 iPad paintings of the night sky. All the new paintings were made this year.
Hockney, long known for challenging the way we look at space and vision, continues to explore his idea of “reverse perspective” in these new interior scenes. Instead of rejecting traditional perspective, he widens it: different vanishing points and shifting viewpoints create a sense of movement and energy. The colours and angles combine to place the viewer inside the scene, inviting us to look the way we naturally see in real life.
The Moon Room offers a quieter, nighttime contrast. Painted in Normandy in 2020, the works glow with a moonlit clarity. Hockney recalls turning off every light in the house so the shadows across the grass were sharpened by the iPad’s glow: “With my backlit iPad I could draw it.”, as quoted on the gallery’s exhibition website. Hockney said, Influenced by Van Gogh, yet unmistakably his own, Hockney’s lines capture nature with a striking sense of immediacy.
The exhibition comes after a period of high output for the artist, including a summer show at the Foundation Louis Vuitton and ongoing work related to stage design. It also coincides with preparations for A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre frieze scheduled to open at the Serpentine in March 2026. Hockney continues to produce new work and explore different approaches to painting and visual representation.
By: Rounan Lei