Annely Juda Fine Art announces its inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space on Hanover Square with works by David Hockney. Opening in early November 2025, the exhibition will debut a series of new paintings alongside the first full presentation in the UK of Hockney’s Moon works - comprising paintings and iPad paintings.
Hockney’s fourteenth exhibition at the gallery, and following his celebrated exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris this summer, this show will debut never-seen-before paintings completed in his London studio over the last six months, underpinning Hockney’s unwavering commitment to and vigour for the act of painting and cementing him as perhaps the most iconic artist of today.
These very, very, very new paintings mark the most developed stage yet in Hockney’s dedication to ‘reverse perspective’ in paint. For decades, Hockney has observed that traditional linear perspective in art and photography doesn’t reflect how humans actually see: we have peripheral vision, we move and we constantly generate multiple viewpoints. Viewing is therefore not static, but dynamic and experiential. It’s not an inversion of perspective that interests Hockney, but an expansion of the possibilities of representation. In these recent canvases, which depict colourful interior scenes, he disrupts planar perspective and engineers multiple vanishing points in a single picture, bringing us closer to the lived experience of perception.
The show will also include two paintings on canvas and 15 iPad prints of the night sky. The moon works were created in 2020 outside Hockney’s Normandy studio in France throughout the seasons and, just as previous iPad works have, these works capture a joy in nature, this time brightly illuminated by moonlight. Influences of Van Gogh are present, yet Hockney’s signature use of line and colour is unmistakable. With the ability to paint easily en plein air, Hockney enjoys the speed with which he can capture light with the iPad, evident in the luminosity of these works.
Hockney said: “Once, when we were just sitting outside the house, we put all the lights off in the house to see the moonlight more clearly. The moon could then be seen to cast shadows of the trees on the grass, so with my backlit iPad I could draw it. This would have been virtually impossible without it.”
One of the longest-standing represented artists of the gallery, David Hockney became known as a central figure of British art in the 1960s and continues to be widely celebrated as one of the most influential artists of our time. Born in Bradford in 1937, he graduated from the Bradford School of Art in 1957 and studied at the Royal College of Art from 1959–62. Alongside his prodigious painting and drawing practice, he has constantly explored new technological possibilities in making art. In the 1980s he embraced Polaroid film, photocopying and faxing and, more recently, digital media including photoshop and his iPad as new means of conceiving and creating mesmerising multiple-view and composite images. Now in his eighties, Hockney continues to create new works in all media with his unwavering desire to continually challenge conventions of perspective in art and how we truly ‘see’. In March 2026, Hockney will present, A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre-long frieze inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry at the Serpentine, London.
Annely Juda (1914 – 2006) established Annely Juda Fine Art with her son, David Juda in 1968 in a warehouse space on London’s Tottenham Mews. The first exhibition was ‘Now Open: Important Paintings of the 20th Century and Young Artists’ and the presentation of the twentieth-century avant-garde works alongside contemporary art has carried on throughout the gallery’s history. The gallery presents exhibitions of its represented artists along with curated group exhibitions. In 1990, the gallery moved to 23 Dering Street off New Bond Street in London’s Mayfair and in November 2025 the gallery will open new premises at 16 Hanover Square, London, a Grade II listed Georgian building with two large floors of exhibition space with an exceptional glass-domed ceiling. The new space will be led by co-Directors David Juda – who founded the gallery with his mother Annely in 1968 - and Nina Fellmann, who has been with the gallery since 2003.
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