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The Gallerys autumn programme will see the return of the five-star exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life, which was staged for just 20 days before the Gallerys closure due to Covid in March 2020. The exhibition explores the artists work over the last six decades through his intimate portraits of five sitters: his mother, Celia Birtwell, Gregory Evans, Maurice Payne and the artist himself. His familiarity with the sitters enables him to work with a range of mediums and styles, from pencil, pen and ink and crayon, to photographic collage and the iPad. The 2023 exhibition will also debut a selection of over thirty new portraits. Painted from life they depict friends and visitors to the artists Normandy studio between 2021 and 2022.
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St Martins Place
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- 05 Feb – William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), American novelist & poet
- 05 Feb – Russell Grant (1951- ), British astrologer, author & media personality
- 06 Feb – Ramón Novarro (1899–1968), Mexican Hollywood actor & sex symbol
- 07 Feb – Mark Tewksbury (1968–), Canadian Olympic swimmer & LGBT rights activist
- 08 Feb – James Dean (1931–1955), American film actor & cultural icon
- 09 Feb – Holly Johnson (1960- ), English artist, musician, writer, best known as lead vocalist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- 09 Feb – Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (1989–), Finnish swimmer
- 10 Feb – Bill Tilden (1893–1953), American tennis player
- 12 Feb – Philip, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921), German politician & diplomat
- 12 Feb – George Smitherman (1964–), Canadian politician, former Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)
- 16 Feb – John Schlesinger (1926–2003), English film & stage director
- 17 Feb – Peter Karlsson (1966–1995), Swedish hockey player
- 18 Feb – Ned Sherrin CBE (1931– 2007), English broadcaster, author & stage director. Qualified as a barrister
- 19 Feb – F. O. Matthiessen (1902–1950), American historian & literary critic
- 19 Feb – Justin Fashanu (1961–1998), English footballer who played between 1978-1997 inc Norwich City, Nottingham Forest. £1 million transfer fee
- 20 Feb – William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872–1938), British politician
- 20 Feb – Roy Cohn (1927–1986), American attorney during the McCarthy era
- 20 Feb – John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley (1948–), English business executive
- 21 Feb – W. H. Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet
- 21 Feb – Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018), French fashion designer
- 21 Feb – David Geffen (1943–), American record executive & film producer
- 22 Feb – Edward Enninful OBE (1972- ), Ghanaian editor-in-chief of Br. Vogue & European editorial director of Condé Nast
- 22 Feb - Kenneth Williams (1926–1988), English actor, known for his comedy roles (Carry On) & in later life as a raconteur/diarist
- 21 Feb – Elliot Page (1987–), Canadian actor & film producer
- 27 Feb – Derren Brown (1971- ), English mentalist, illusionist, painter & author. TV debut in 2000 - Derren Brown: Mind Control
- 28 Feb – Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist & essayist