I, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Bright Colors the work showcases Walker's signature

the work showcases Walker's signature silhouette style that has established her as one of the most important contemporary artists addressing issues of race

stands in a lightly ruled room beside a panel of scattered red dots — Hockney giving the letter the texture of basketry and the presence of a standing figure

and the relationship between death and beauty

is a Japanese woodcut in Ukiyo-e style on paper from an edition of 50

Iris Murdoch

I, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Bright Colors the work showcases Walker's signatureDavid Hockney's letter I comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A stark plate in black and white: a white dotless i a column and its rounded head is reserved out of a dense, mottled, leopard like field, the negative space of the letter reading as a luminous silhouette against churning pattern. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen