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The Reader collaborates with artist Alake Shilling
To accompany the exhibition A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting at Serpentine North (12 March – 23 August 2026)
this publication includes contributions from Serpentine Associate Exhibitions Curator Chris Bayley and scholar Martha Easton
Paulo Tavares
The shrine is accompanied by two brass figures that can be chosen separately
End Bossiness Soon Cap Color:Black The Reader collaborates with artistDuring 2020, while living and working in Normandy, David Hockney began making a series of iPad drawings that combined image with handwritten text. The phrase End Bossiness Soon first appears in this period. Here, 'bossiness' becomes a catch all term for over control, moral instruction, and bureaucratic management. The inclusion of soon is significant, and Hockneys own, phrase asks for change without being bossy. The phrase also features in one of the
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