End Bossiness Soon Cap Color:Black Throughout the years

Throughout the years

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

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End Bossiness Soon Cap Color:Black Throughout the yearsDuring 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