Becki CrossleyYou may have been lucky enough to have seen David Hockey’s exhibition piece ‘Bigger Trees Near Warter’ as it coated the walls of York Art Galley last February – June, 2011. Well now the successful exhibition ‘A Bigger Picture’ has bagged itself a South Bank award nomination. Born in Bradford West Yorkshire, Hockney is a local man whose award nominated exhibition spans a 50 year period exploring his fascination with the depiction of landscape. Hockey’s paintings consist of many of Yorkshire’s own landscapes which nurtured and surrounded the young Hockney as he developed into the artist he is today. The painting ‘Bigger Trees Near Warter’, that came to York on loan from Tate, is the largest painting in the exhibition and the largest painting Hockney has ever produced, measuring 40 x 15 feet (12 x 4 metres). The exhibition also includes older landscape works, as well as drawings and even film. His exhibition stands up against another local Yorkshire architecture The Hepworth in Wakefield created by David Chipperfield, as well as Grayson Perry’s piece ‘The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman’ in the visual art category.
Lord Melvyn Bragg (ex host of The South Bank Show) will host the awards ceremony which will take place at the Dorchester hotel in London, and will be broadcast on the Sky Arts digital channel at 21.00 on the 1 May 2012. Many familiar names pop in all categories of this year’s nominations list and include many of the things/people we love here at One&Other so here is a full list of nominees that are up for a chance of winning:
Classical Music
• Llŷr Williams: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Cycle at Edinburgh Festival
• Harrison Birtwistle with Boston Symphony Orchestra: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra at Boston Symphony Hall
• Sir Colin Davis and the LSO: Nielsen’s Symphony Cycle at the Barbican
Comedy
• Fresh Meat, Channel 4
• Twenty Twelve, BBC4
• Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, BBC2
Dance
• Zoo Nation, Some Like it Hip Hop, Sadlers Wells
• Akram Khan, Desh, The Curve
• Arthur Pita, The Metamorphosis, Linbury Studio
Film
• Attack The Block
• Senna
• We Need To Talk About Kevin
Literature
• Pure, Andrew Miller
• Charles Dickens: A Life, Claire Tomalin
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson Opera
• The Damnation of Faust, ENO
• Mignon, Buxton Festival
• Heart of Darkness, Linbury, Royal Opera
Pop Music
• Adele, 21
• PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
• Kate Bush, 50 Words For Snow
Theatre
• Matilda, RSC,
• One Man Two Guvnors, National Theatre
• Constellations, Royal Court
TV Drama
• Sherlock, BBC 1
• This is England ’88, Channel 4
• Top Boy, Channel 4
Visual Art
• Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, British Museum
• David Chipperfield: The Hepworth Wakefield
• David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, Royal Academy
The Times Breakthrough Award
• Comedy: Adam Riches
• Classical music: David Bates
• Dance: Yonah Acosta
• Film: Felicity Jones
• Literature: Stephen Kelman
• Opera: Sophie Bevan
• Pop music: Michael Kiwanuka
• Theatre: Joseph Drake
• TV Drama: Jessica Raine
• Visual Art: Haroon Mirza
Outstanding Achievement (in association with The Dorchester) is to be announced on the day of the award ceremony.
What do you think of the nominees? Is there anyone/thing you think has been missed out and deserved to make it into this year’s categories?
