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Guerrilla Girls – 'You Have to Question What You See' | TateShots
The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into...
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Luke Willis Thompson | Turner Prize Nominee 2018 | TateShots
Luke Willis Thompson works across film, performance, installation and sculpture to tackle traumatic histories of class, racial and social inequality, institutional violence, colonialism and forced migration. Following research into...
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Charlotte Prodger | Turner Prize Winner 2018 | TateShots
Charlotte Prodger is a British artist working with moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing. Her work explores issues surrounding queer identity, landscape, language, technology and time. Travelling through the Scottish...
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Forensic Architecture | Turner Prize Nominee 2018 | TateShots
Forensic Architecture are an interdisciplinary team that includes architects, filmmakers, lawyers and scientists. Their work uses the built environment as a starting point for explorations into human rights violations. In recent years,...
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Maggi Hambling – 'Every Portrait is Like a Love Affair' | TateShots
Maggi Hambling is a British painter and sculptor known for her intricate portraits and seascapes. The artist uses her creative practice as a grieving tool to cope with the loss of her loved ones such as Henrietta Moraes, her mother and...
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Lindsay Seers – 'I Turned Myself Into a Camera' | TateShots
Lindsay Seers focuses on the relationship between subject and object in photography. Objectifying her body, the Mauritius born British artist has literally used her figure as a flower vase and photography camera. By placing a light...
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Irina Nakhova – 'Real Freedom in Your Apartment’ | TateShots
Russian artist Irina Nakhova takes us back in time to her 1980’s Moscow apartment. First created in 1984, ‘Room. 2’ was a result of her frustration from the oppressive Soviet Regime. The Soviet state only permitted artists working in the...
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Naeem Mohaiemen | Turner Prize Nominee 2018 | TateShots
Naeem Mohaiemen works with film, installation and essays. His practice investigates transnational socialist politics after the Second World War. This period was framed by decolonisation and the erasing of political utopias. Mohaiemen...
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Antony Cairns – London By Night | Tate
Antony Cairns is an artist stretching the boundaries of the photographic medium. Cityscapes, from London to Tokyo, feature as a backdrop for his investigation into the tool of photography. Fascinated by its reproductive nature, Cairns...
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Goshka Macuga – 'The Magic is the Unknown' | TateShots
Polish born artist Goshka Macuga is known for taking on the role of curator and archivist within her practice. We visit Goshka in her London studio as she explains her meticulous research process and shows us her archive collection of...
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Roger Ballen – 'A Good Picture Comes From Nowhere' | TateShots
An American who has lived in South Africa for the past thirty years, Ballen began his career as a geologist. He is now one of the most important and influential photographic artists of the 21st century. Renowned for his striking...
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Elizabeth Price | Turner Prize Winner 2012 | Tate
Elizabeth Price describes her films as moving ‘from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture, to something that looks like an infomercial to something that feels like a cinematic melodrama’. For the 2012 Turner Prize exhibition,...
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Yayoi Kusama's The Passing Winter | Why I Love | Tate
Our staff talk about their favourite artworks! In this episode our Tate Exchange volunteer Martin Shwarz shares his views on Yayoi Kusama's installation 'The Passing Winter' 2005. See if the work is on display and find out more here:...
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How to Paint Like Kandinsky | Tate
Ever wondered how Kandinsky painted his masterpieces? Find out in this 'how to' with artist, Sui. Material list: 1. (Pre-primed) cotton canvas, 50 x 70cm 2. Oil brush no 3.8.12 3. Flat brush no 40 (for applying base layer) 4. Slow Dry...
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Richard Dadd's The Flight Out of Egypt | Why I Love | Tate
Our staff talk about their favourite artworks! Here, Corey Samuel shares his views on Richard Dadd's painting The Flight out of Egypt 1849–50, on display at Tate Britain. Find out more about the Flight out Egypt: https://goo.gl/q8FrGy...
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John Smith – 'Playing With the Power of Language' | TateShots
John Smith is a British artist and filmmaker. Inspired by conceptual art and structural film, since 1972 Smith has made over 40 film, video and installation works, that have been shown internationally in galleries, cinemas and on...
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Lubaina Himid – ‘I’m a Painter and a Cultural Activist’ | TateShots
Lubaina Himid’s paintings and installations explore ideas around black British representation and identity. In this film we visit the Turner Prize winning artist Lubaina Himid in her studio in Preston. Himid shows us around her recent...
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Marwan Rechmaoui's Monument for the Living | Why I Love | Tate
Our staff talk about their favourite artworks! Here, Alex Pilcher shares her views on Marwan Rechmaoui's sculpture 'Monument for the Living', on display at Tate Modern. Find out more: https://goo.gl/f41H5x Subscribe for weekly films:...
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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg – 'I Want to Archive These Places' | TateShots
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is a German photographer known for her conceptual black and white photographs of barren environments. Urusla Schulz-Dornburg’s photography documents the landscape of abandoned spaces. In this film she tells us her...
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John Hilliard – 'Everything Comes Down to Time and Light' | TateShots
Conceptual artist John Hilliard’s artwork explores the technical and sculptural nature of photography. In this studio visit with English conceptual artist John Hilliard we learn about his meticulous process for his photography pieces....
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Joan Jonas – ‘I'm Curious About Life’ | TateShots
Ahead of her Tate Modern retrospective we spoke with Joan Jonas in her New York City studio. Joan Jonas is one of the most important American artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her pioneering experimentation and work in...
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Chila Kumari Burman – ‘Artists Turn Chaos Into Order’ | TateShots
Artist Chila Kumari Burman invites us into the ‘tiny little world’ of her East London studio. Liverpool-born Burman makes paintings, prints, etchings and moving image works inspired by her Indian heritage. Her studio in East London is...
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Conserving Whaam! | Tate
Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! is one of the most popular works in Tate's collection and has been on almost constant display since it was acquired in 1966. The materials used to create the painting are challenging for conservators, as they...
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Bernard Cohen – ‘It’s a Matter of Dancing with Chaos’ | TateShots
Bernard Cohen is a British artist whose paintings tell stories about everyday existence and experience. Often described as an abstract artist, he explains why he does not consider his paintings to be abstract. At his home in London, he...