Serpentine North

Video games are the medium for Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. The young artist uses them to ‘imaginatively archive and empower Black Trans stories’ - this isn’t just point-and-shoot, slack-jawed gaming for the sake of it, this is one of contemporary society’s most important cultural forms being used to give voice to marginalised identities. 

Everybody loves David Hockney. So it’s good news, because more colourful works from the fellow who can’t seem to stop making art will be going on display in London in 2026, this time at the Serpentine North, as the gallery welcomes its first ever Hockney exhibition. Featuring many of his iPad drawings created during lockdown, number of the artist’s recent works will be show, including ‘Moon Room’ which reflects his lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing, and ‘A Year in Normandy’, a ninety-metre-long frieze, inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, showing the change of seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy.