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Maurice Sendak – 'You Have to Take the Dive' | TateShots
Maurice Sendak, the creative genius behind books such as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and ‘In the Night Kitchen’, is an illustrator whose work has been seen by millions of people all over the world. In this video, Sendak looks back over...
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Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture Garden | TateShots
Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios, now the Hepworth Museum, from 1949 until her death in 1975....
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Luc Tuymans – Studio Visit | TateShots
Luc Tuymans often uses the history of his country, Belgium, and that of his own family as a starting point in his work. His paintings are born out of a distrust of imagery in an image saturated world, and a belief that representation can...
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Peter Randall-Page – Studio Visit | TateShots
Sculptor Peter Randall-Page works chiefly in stone and often shows his sculpture in landscape settings. Find out more about Peter Randall-Page: https://goo.gl/hCPp8j
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David Tremlett – The Manton Staircase | TateShots
For his latest architectural intervention, David Tremlett and a team of assistants spent 12 days rubbing pastel crayons onto the walls at Tate Britain with the palms of their hands. The resulting painting, 'Drawing for Free Thinking',...
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Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms
Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms, produced by Aimer Media, is an art dictionary for iPad and iPhone. Over 300 terms are defined with clarity and precision, putting themes, movements, media and art practices at your fingertips. The first...
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Andy Goldsworthy – 'We Share a Connection with Stone' | TateShots
Using materials such as wood, stone and snow, Andy Goldsworthy’s Land Art explores our connection with nature. TateShots visited him at his studio in southwest Scotland and took a walk with him through the landscape that is at the heart...
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Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool | TateShots
'Alice in Wonderland' at Tate Liverpool was the first exhibition of its kind to explore how Lewis Carroll's stories have influenced the visual arts, inspiring generations of artists. Curators Gavin Delahunty and Christopher Benjamin...
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Mat Collishaw – Sordid Earth | TateShots
Giant diseased infested flowers projected on to a massive 360-degree curtain made up of hanging silicone tendrils feature in Mat Collishaw's 'Sordid Earth'. Collishaw found inspiration in the work of John Martin whilst constructing this...
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Hilary Lloyd | Turner Prize Nominee 2011 | TateShots
The Turner Prize 2011 nominee Hilary Lloyd makes films and videos that draw attention to unnoticed details in everyday life. Yet she says she is 'not a filmmaker', and indeed the equipment that she uses for projection and screening is...
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Martin Boyce | Turner Prize Winner 2011 | TateShots
Turner Prize nominee Martin Boyce's work explores the visual language of modernist architecture and design. Classic pieces of furniture by Arne Jacobsen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Jean Prouvé among others, have often been the focus of...
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Karla Black | Turner Prize Nominee 2011 | TateShots
Karla Black's unorthodox and innovative approach to sculpture led to a nomination for the Turner Prize 2011. Using established art materials alongside more unusual items such as nail varnish, cellophane and bath salts she creates work...
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George Shaw | Turner Prize Nominee 2011 | TateShots
Painter George Shaw was one of the nominees for the Turner Prize 2011. For almost two decades his subject matter has been the place in which he grew up, a housing estate in Coventry and the surrounding streets. Every detail is...
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Grayson Perry – 'Pottery Is My Gimmick' | TateShots
Take a look inside the London studio of artist Grayson Perry. Describing pottery as his 'gimmick', Perry demonstrates his process and explains why he wants people to be able to just enjoy art, rather than having to interpret it....
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Mona Hatoum – 'I Never Know What I Will End Up Making' | TateShots
Artist Mona Hatoum shows us around her studio, an old shop in the heart of Berlin. Hatoum explains why she feels the need to make things on a daily basis, continually working to create art that plays with conflict and contradiction,...
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Peter Randall-Page on Barry Flanagan | TateShots
Barry Flanagan was one of the most radical sculptors of his generation. Though best known for his statues of bronze hares, his earlier work, in materials as varied as cloth, plaster, and sand, show how he challenged the very idea of what...
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Tacita Dean – FILM | Tate
Tacita Dean is the latest artist to take up the challenge of filling Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Her response, entitled 'FILM', is a silent 35mm looped film projected onto a monolith standing 13 metres tall. FILM is an 11-minute silent...
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Ryan Gander's Locked Room Scenario | TateShots
Ryan Gander's new work for Artangel messes with your mind. 'Locked Room Scenario' purports to be a group show in a warehouse in Hoxton. But when TateShots made an appointment to go along, the exhibition seemed to be temporarily closed....
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Pat Nevin in Conversation with Neville Gabie | TateShots
Pat Nevin and Neville Gabie discuss the sculptural qualities of goalposts and how they become a way of understanding the city, landscape or community they are found in. Pat Nevin's 20 year long career as a professional footballer saw him...
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APOCALYPSE IS COMING
John Martin: Apocalypse is on at Tate Britain until 15 January 2012. For more information or to book tickets go to: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/johnmartin/default.shtm Production Company: Habana Creative Director: Simon...
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Mark Titchner – Studio Visit | TateShots
Casts of pig's rib cages, burnt wood carvings and a cement mixer are just some of the things Mark Titchner showed TateShots when we dropped by his studio for a visit. Whilst showing us around Titchner also showed us what he is working on...
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Helen Saunders and Jessica Dismorr – The Female Vorticists | TateShots
The Vorticist movement had two female members, Helen Saunders and Jessica Dismorr, while Dorothy Shakespear was an unofficial member. In this film, Biddy Peppin, art historian and a relative of Helen Saunders, tells us the story of the...
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Storm Thorgerson on Rene Magritte | TateShots
Storm Thorgerson designed the cover for Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', an album that can be found in the homes of over 40 million people. In a career spanning over 30 years he has produced album graphics for numerous acts. Many of...
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Joan Miró | TateShots
Renowned as one of the greatest Surrealist painters, filling his paintings with luxuriant colour, Miró worked in a rich variety of styles. Joan Miró's work came to London in 2011 in the UK's first major retrospective for nearly 50 years....