David Hockney transforms Turner Contemporary's iconic window

Celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary this spring, Turner Contemporary announced that David Hockney realised the next Sunley Window. Measuring seven by ten metres, Hockney’s work transforms the gallery’s iconic floor-to-ceiling window in the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s beaches and the North Sea. It marks the first time a major work by the artist is exhibited in Margate. Marking the beginning of spring, Hockney’s window depicts a sunrise in Normandy, where he produced an extraordinary body of work in response to the changing seasons, weather, and light. Originally made as an iPad painting, the window adapts a work he made in 2020 titled 27th April 2020, No. 1, which reflects his long-standing engagement with digital technologies. Hockney’s Normandy paintings have been widely celebrated for their immediacy, optimism and close attention