Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists - Part 1 - Whitechapel Gallery

Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists – Part 1

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    Portrait of David Hockney, 1972. Film still. Courtesy BFI

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    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti, 1983. Film still courtesy BFI.

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1 Apr - 5 Jul 2026

Assembly Room

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Tuesday 11am–6pm
Wednesday 11am–6pm
Thursday 11am–9pm
Friday 11am–6pm
Saturday 11am–6pm
Sunday 11am–6pm

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Film Programme
Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists – Part 1 

As we celebrate our 125th Anniversary, enjoy a selection of rarely seen films highlighting the work and lives of leading international artists who have exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery over the decades.

The programme includes interviews, archival footage and documentary analysis featuring artists such as Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Philip Guston, Peter Kennard and Patrick Heron.

Programme

Barbara Hepworth – Figures in a Landscape (1953), directed by Dudley Shaw Ashton, 17min

Portrait of David Hockney (1972), directed by David Pearce, 13min

Philip Guston: A Life Lived (1981), directed by Michael Blackwood, 58min

Patrick Heron: Recent Paintings and Selected Earlier Canvases, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 21 June until 16 July 1972 (1972), directed by John Pasmore, 22min

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (1983), directed by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 29min

Photomontage Today: Peter Kennard (1983), directed by Chris Rodrigues and Rod Stoneman, 35min

 

Content warning: please note that Photomontage Today: Peter Kennard contains graphic images of animal slaughter.

 

Please note that on occasion, when there are other events in the Assembly Room, films may be screened in the Zilkha Auditorium and Studio.