KEIGHLEY Film Club is hosting a feature documentary covering the early years of well-known artist David Hockney.

Hockney will be screened at Keighley Picture House in conjunction this month’s International Film Summit in Bradford, and coincides with a new Hockney exhibition at Salts Mill.

Keighley Film Club spokesman, Alan Watkinson, said there had been a number of films about David Hockney in the past.

He added: “This time, the director, Randall Wright, was given unique access to construct a joyful, sensitive, intimate and candid docu-portrait of Hockney’s early years.

“The film reveals a Bradford born and educated man, who has risen to the top of his profession and is arguably the greatest artist living today.”

The film covers Hockney’s early influences in Bradford, key inspirational artists, the emergence of the British Pop Art scene and experience of being gay when the Aids crisis took hold in California.

Mr Watkinson said the film has covered Hockney’s use of new technology, including fax machines, photocopiers, polaroid and digital cameras, and demonstrates his remarkable experimental curiosity and creativity to explore new media.

He added: “It also covers Hockney the man, with his cheeky spirit, honest appraisal and sense of fun.”

Hockney will be screened at the Picture House in North Street, Keighley, at 6pm on Sunday. Programmes will be available featuring future Keighley Film Club screenings.