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. Film Programme will be closed on Saturday 18 April. Please note that on occasion, when there are other events in the Assembly Room, films may be screened in the Zilkha Auditorium and Studio.