Part of the interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of the photographer Sam Taylor-Wood, whose pictures reflect her concerns with alienation, anxiety and conflict. Reflecting on her work and her recent brushes with cancer, taylor-Wood discusses works including '16mm', 'Brontosaurus' and 'Still Life'.
Art documentary looking at the work of the 18th century British painter William Hodges, who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific and who provided Europe with the first widely-seen images of Tahiti, New Zealand and the Pacific islands. Curator Geoff Quilley and naturalist experts such as Nicholas Thomas and David Attenborough discuss Hodges' work.
Part of the interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of Richard Wilson, the sculptor and installation artist who frequently works on an architectural scale. Wilson reflects here on the nature of artistic collaboration, the creation of works for specific places, and the need to challenge our sense of space and the environment around us.
Part of the interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of the distinguished sculptor Tony Cragg, whose long career has seen him use a variety of different materials to explore the nature of sculpture itself, creating abstract, figurative and industrial forms that continue to provoke and challenge.
Part of an interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of Michael Craig-Martin. In 1973 Craig-Martin exhibited a glass of water on a shelf, together with a printed text, and called the work 'An Oak Tree'. As the text explained, the artist had changed the glass of water into an oak tree. More than thirty years later, Craig-Martin creates - along with screen-savers, works on LCD monitors and conventional paintings - gloriously colourful...
Part of the interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of the painter Lisa Milroy, who depicts everyday objects such as rows of shoes, collections of lightbulbs and the blank facades of buildings. Milroy discusses her approach to painting and the increasing influence that Japanese culture has had on her work.
Part of the interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of the controversial deadpan duo Gilbert and George, who exhibit themselves as 'living sculptures' and create challenging photographic montages reflecting their banal day-to-day lives.
Richard Deacon is widely regarded as one of the principal British sculptors, best known for his innovative use of open form and his interest in materials and their manipulation. For more than two decades, Deacon has created unique sculptures in a wide range of materials such as laminated wood, polycarbonate, leather, cloth and ceramic. Working on both a domestic and monumental scale, his structures combine organic and biomorphic forms with elements of engineering. The sculptures are defined b...
Part of the interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of the influential painter Malcolm Morley, who explores autobiography, politics and the visual culture of his times on striking cavases. Morley discusses his use of ancient cultures in his paintings, as well as his more recent work painting news photographs.
David Batchelor's art is about colour. With lightboxes and everyday plastics, eccentric chandeliers and projections, he brings pure, direct colour into galleries and public spaces. His works are immediately delightful, but they are also concerned with what colour means in today's world and with how we experience it.David Batchelor's art is also about the city. His colours are the bright, sharp hues of neon and artificial materials, not the soft tones of the natural world. In this profile, the...
Part of an interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists, this volume looks at the work of Tony Hill including sculpture, photography, film installations, performance, short films for cinema and television and commercial directing. The short films explore different ways of looking at the world and often require the invention and building of various rigs for filming and sometimes for presentation.
Vong Phaophanit showed his strikingly seductive Neon Rice Field when he was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1993. Like much of his rich and complex work since then, this installation exhibits a strong interest in language and light, in the painterly qualities of ephemeral materials and in ideas of cultural displacement. He was born in Laos, educated in France and has worked mostly in Britain since the early 1990s. Much of his work now is commissioned for architectural and environmental sett...
Part of the interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of the artists Dalziel and Scullion, who have lived and worked together since 1993, and who use photography, video, sculpture and sound to explore their themes of the intersection of nature and culture, and the contradictions between the wilderness and the high-tech constructions in evidence in the north east of Scotland.
Part of a series of interview-based profiles examining the work of contemporary artists, this volume looks at the paintings of Conrad Shawcross. Often using subjects which lie on the border of science and philosophy, Shawcross's structural and often mechanical sculptures question empirical, ontological and philosophical systems ubiquitous within our lives. While at first appearing rational and functional, his often complex mechanised systems in the end deny all rational function and so the vi...
Thriller in which a weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends when they forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb and they are stuck in the water many miles from shore, with baby Sara left alone on board. Sara's mother Amy must contend with her aqua-phobia as well as the group's increasing desperation, as the friends begin to turn on each other. Soon the exhaustion of...
Art documentary looking at the qualities of glass, as used by many contemporary artists in Britain today. Leading artists such as Katharine Coleman, Matthew Durran and Colin Rennie demonstrate the range of work possible using glass.
Part of the interview-based documentary series profiling major contemporary artists. This volume looks at the work of sculptor Gereon Krebber, whose monumental aluminium piece 'Tin' was chosen for the 2003 Jerwood Sculpture Prize. Krebber discusses his attempts to create work that he characterises as 'seriously flippant'.
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