Our best-selling series of 44 profiles about contemporary artists is available for streaming and download. With artists from all mediums being highlighted, each film offers a rare insight into an artist’s influences and ideas, providing an accessible means of engaging with the pleasures and puzzles of art in the 21st century.
These interview-based profiles offer an excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works and provide an ideal resource for a wide range of audience, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as the individual art-lover.
View Details >>Gillian Ayres defined her career by ranges of style and manner. Early decorative images in the 1960s gave way to a return to extreme and painterly extraction in the Seventies before later moving back to oil painting and her exclusive colorful style for which she is so well known.
View Details >>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.
View Details >>The film focuses on the influences of Sandra Blow and how she practiced her art during the time she was preparing for for the 2006 Royal Academy Exhibition. This would sadly be her last exhibition as she sadly passed away that year.
View Details >>Having worked together for more than 30 years, the Boyle Family has produced art that scrutinises and replicates fragments of reality and landscapes with the aim to embrace all aspects of an ever-changing world.
View Details >>Stuart Brisley is probably best known for his disturbing performance art that pushed his body to extremes but less is known about his previous four decades as an artist in which he embraced a diverse range of artistic expression.
View Details >>In the early 1960s Anthony Caro led a revolution in sculpture in Britain. His abstract steel constructions, often painted in bold colours, forged a new and internationally influential sculptural language.
View Details >>In a distinguished career since the mid-1970s, Tony Cragg has produced a strikingly diverse range of sculptures in the widest variety of materials and this film offers something of a retrospective on the preceding quarter century of his career.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
