Doll's prams and hand-knitted togs: a Hockney family portrait
Storytellers NSW MemberJohn Hockney on ABC Radio’s Conversations
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John Hockney grew up in the industrial town of Bradford in Northern England.
He was one of five children in a creative household, led by his iconoclastic father Kenneth, was a conscientious objector who always told his children to 'never worry what the neighbours think'.
During the war, there were many shortages. As child, John's brother David would creep downstairs in the morning and draw on whatever paper was available.
He drew figures, streets, houses, landscapes and cartoons on the white edge of the newspaper, his mother's magazines, or whatever comics arrived that day.
When David got his first sketchbook at the age of 10, his parents realised his drawing was much more than compulsive doodling.
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The Hockneys is published by Legend Press
Duration: 51min 28sec
Broadcast: Fri 3 Apr 2020, 11:00am