Out & About Autumn 2021

Out & About leisure

American actress by Britain’s most famous living artist. The Hockney and Hollywood exhibition features an extraordinary life-sized nude photographic study of Theresa Russell by David Hockney. The Yorkshire-born artist was commissioned by his

friend the Hollywood film director Nicolas Roeg to create the montage for the movie Insignificance , which starred his then wife, Theresa Russell, as Marilyn Monroe. Roeg, who’s best known for directing The Witches , documented Hockney at work on the piece; photographing the artist as

he prepared the scene, the assistants as they applied make up and Hockney taking the posed shots. These photographs give a unique and intimate never before seen ‘behind the scenes’ look at Hockney that make up an integral part of the exhibition, as one artist observes another.

October 22-November 28 Hockney and Hollywood The Base, Greenham Business Park www.thebasegreenham. co.uk This autumn The Base welcomes Hollywood to West Berkshire in the form of a major photomontage of an

Saturday, October 9 Newbury Apple Day Market Place, Newbury 9am-3.30pm Bring your crops along to be turned into apple juice

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