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Catherine Yass – 'I Try to Make Work That Provokes Thought' | TateShots
Filmmaker and photographer Catherine Yass shows us her London studio and the camera she has been using for twenty-five years. Catherine Yass is noted for her films and brightly coloured photographs. Her stills present an image which is...
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Raqib Shaw – ‘Taking Craft to a Crazy, Romantic Extreme’ | TateShots
Raqib Shaw is an Indian-born, London-based artist whose extraordinary paintings feature rich colours and intricate detail. The artist’s works evoke the Old Masters, such as Hans Holbein and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as reflecting the...
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Amalia Pica – 'Can Joy Be a Form of Resistance?' | TateShots
Argentinian artist Amalia Pica uses everyday objects to explore how joy and happiness can be a form of resistance. Now based in East London, the artist talks about growing up in Patagonia under dictatorship and how that experience has...
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Cristina Iglesias – ‘The Viewer is Fundamental in My Work’ | TateShots
Cristina Iglesias is a Spanish installation artist and sculptor living and working in Madrid. She works with many materials, including steel, water, glass, bronze, bamboo, straw and is known for her architectural sculptures which can be...
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How to Paint Like Picasso | Tate
Ever wondered how Picasso painted his masterpieces? Find out how to paint a cubist portrait inspired by Picasso’s Bust of a Woman 1909. Find out more: https://tinyurl.com/ya5y53gv Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl
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Amar Kanwar – 'We Make Sense of Life in Bits and Pieces' | TateShots
In ‘The Lightning Testimonies’ (2007) Amar Kanwar confronts social violence by exposing the use of sexual brutality to exert power in times of political conflict. The brutal split that created India and Pakistan in 1947 is the starting...
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Susan Norrie – 'I'm Interested in Life and Politics' | Tate
Susan Norrie is an Australian artist based in Sydney, whose work is a combination of photography, film and documentary shown in large-scale multimedia installations. Her work, often set in the Asia-Pacific, explores the relationship...
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Valérie Mréjen – 'My Works are Centred on Writing and Language' | TateShots
Valérie Mréjen is a visual artist, filmmaker and writer. Her videos stem from the observation of everyday events and highlight laughable details of our existence. Language and memories are central to her work which often features...
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Martin Parr – 'Photography is a Form of Therapy' | TateShots
Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of...
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Postcards From London | The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London
A short drama about the experience of discovering a new city. The story is inspired by 'The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London', on at Tate Britain until 7 May 2018. The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London – Until 7 May 2018:...
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Hannah Starkey – 'This is an Important Moment for Women' | TateShots
Photographer Hannah Starkey’s images explore female perspective both as the subject and viewer. The Northern Irish artist talks us through her process when it comes to creating an image and how having young daughters influenced her work....
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Make Your Place – A Portrait of Changing Futures | Circuit | Tate
In a troubled socio-political landscape, where conditions of austerity hit the youth sector hard, ten art galleries across England and Wales came together to create opportunities for 15-25 year olds. United in the belief that art...
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Meredith Monk – ‘I Believe in the Healing Power of Art’ | TateShots
We visit performance artist Meredith Monk in her New York City studio. Meredith Monk is an American composer, performer, film-maker and interdisciplinary artist.. She is primarily known for her vocal innovations. Monk's performances have...
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The Making of Modigliani VR: The Ochre Atelier
Experience the The Ochre Atelier as part of our Modigliani exhibition at Tate Modern 23 November 2017 – 2 April 2018. Book tickets today: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/modigliani Free for Tate Members Subscribe...
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Catherine Opie – Photography, Painting and Portraiture | TateShots
American photographer Catherine Opie is best known for her documentation of American life. She rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with portraits capturing the West Coast leather community. Here, the artist visits Tate Britain to discuss...
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Richard Cook – 'Paintings are Dreams and Reflections' | TateShots
Richard Cook’s paintings emerge from drawings and sketches he makes while out walking along the Cornish coastline near his home in Newlyn. In this film he takes us through his process and shows us how closely he lives with works in...
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Dennis Morris – ‘Photography Gave Me Confidence’ | TateShots
Dennis Morris was born in Jamaica and moved to London as a child. He became interested in photography after joining a photographic club for members of his church choir. He is best known for his portraits of Bob Marley and the Sex...
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Bruce Nauman – ‘The True Artist Helps the World’ | TateShots
Pioneering installation artist Bruce Nauman turned everything in his studio, and beyond, into art. Bruce Nauman’s practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance....
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Chris Ofili – Exploding the Crystal
Through oil painting, Chris Ofili has explored concerns about imagery, identity and violence. This film was made in 2010 in conjunction with the artist's major exhibition at Tate Britain. Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and...
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Jack Whitten – ‘The Political is in the Work’ | TateShots
Abstract painter Jack Whitten remembers meeting Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Jack Whitten grew up in Alabama and met both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X during the civil rights movement in the USA. In his abstract painting Homage...
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Jonas Mekas – Always Beginning | TateShots
We visit pioneer of avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas, best known for his ‘film diaries’ and ongoing snapshots of his life, filmed throughout his career. On moving to New York City in the late 1940s, Mekas founded Film Culture magazine...
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Who is Rachel Whiteread?
Tate Curator, Linsey Young, explores the work of Rachel Whiteread, one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists and the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. Using industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and...
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Isaac Julien – ‘I’m Interested in Poetry’ | TateShots
Isaac Julien, CBE, is an award winning filmmaker and installation artist. He rose to prominence with the 1989 film Looking for Langston, a poetic documentary and homage to Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. His work has since...
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An Introduction to Performance Art | TateShots
Performance art relates to artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted. In the 1960s, performance was seen as fundamentally different...