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Zineb Sedira – ‘The Personal is Political’ | TateShots
Zineb Sedira was born in Paris to Algerian parents, and moved to London to study art. Her works are often autobiographical, addressing issues of cultural identity and the personal consequences of migration. In Mother Tongue (2002) the...
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Simeon Barclay – 'Life Can Be Like a Theatre' | TateShots
From Vogue-devotee to production engineer to artist, Simeon Barclay focuses on how we shape and define our identity within cultural settings. We follow his journey of self-reinvention to discover the inspiration behind his work. Simeon...
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Dayanita Singh – ‘I Use Photography to Transform Space’ | TateShots
Photographer Dayanita Singh explains how her photography books are like sculptures, and tells us how the overpowering colour of India led to her work in black and white, which she felt made images ‘more elusive’. The artist also talks...
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Rachel Whiteread – Drawings
Rachel Whiteread is renowned for her evocative large-scale sculptures, but drawing has always remained one of her core activities. This film, originally made in 2010 ahead of her Drawings exhibition at Tate, captures the artist at work...
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William T Williams – A Diamond in A Box | A Film by Andy Mundy-Castle | Tate
We visit abstract painter William T Williams as he works on a new piece in his Connecticut studio. Andy Mundy-Castle directs a film profile of abstract painter William T Williams with a sneak-peak into his Manhattan and Connecticut...
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Meeting Lorraine O'Grady | A Film by Zawe Ashton | Tate
Filmmaker and actress Zawe Ashton visits conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady in New York City to learn more about her work’s exploration of black female subjectivity. Lorraine O'Grady (1934) is a New York-based artist and critic, who...
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Tehching Hsieh – 'All Art Comes From Life' | TateShots
In this short film we hear the story of how Taiwanese performance artist Tehching Hsieh's life as an illegal immigrant informed his piece One Year Performance 1980-1981. Hsieh moved from Taiwan to the United States as a stowaway in 1974,...
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Meilyr Jones – Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose | TateShots
Meilyr Jones brings John Singer Sargent's painting Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose to life with a specially composed piece of music inspired by the artwork. Following last year’s critically acclaimed debut album 2013, and live performances...
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Alberto Giacometti | TateShots
Alberto Giacometti was one of the great painter-sculptors of the twentieth century, explains Tate Modern Director Frances Morris. Celebrated as a sculptor, painter and draughtsman, Giacometti’s distinctive elongated figures are some of...
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Birdhead – ‘We Photograph Things That Are Meaningful To Us’ | TateShots
Shanghai based photographers Ji Weiyu and Song Tao, aka Birdhead, make art about everyday life in their home town. The duo take us on a tour around the Chinese city to discover how they work. In 2004 artists Ju Weiyu (born 1980) and Song...
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Jason Evans – 'Culture is Everything That We Do' | TateShots
In this film photographer Jason Evans explains how he found a new source of inspiration in the same area of Pegwell Bay which featured in William Dyce’s 200 year old painting currently on display in Tate Britain. Jason Evans (born 1968)...
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Jane and Louise Wilson – 'We Push and Challenge Each Other' | TateShots
Turner Prize nominees Jane and Louise Wilson talk about subverting the expectations of how twin sisters collaborate and produce their highly theatrical and atmospheric work. Jane Wilson and Louise Wilson (born 1967 in Newcastle upon...
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The Ancestors Came | A Film by Cecile Emeke | Tate
Cecile Emeke’s film celebrates the life of artist and writer Faith Ringgold and the influence of her childhood in Harlem on her work. Faith Ringgold’s posters All Power to the People (1970) and United States of Attica (1971-2) are...
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Senga Nengudi, Linda Goode Bryant and the Just Above Midtown Gallery | TateShots
Senga Nengudi and Linda Goode Bryant remember the pioneering work of Just Above Midtown (JAM) art gallery. Senga Nengudi is an African-American visual artist best known for her abstract sculptures that combine found objects and...
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Portrait of a Nation
Art historian Kate Bryan explores the misery and glamour of Weimar Germany – a pivotal point in German history – through the eyes of artists Otto Dix and August Sander. Both artists were concerned with representing the extremes of...
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Janet Cardiff and the Forty Part Motet | TateShots
Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations; especially a form she calls audio walks. Her artwork 'Forty Part Motet' is an audio installation reworking the sixteenth-century choral work Spem in...
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Judy Chicago – ‘I’m an Artist and a Troublemaker' | TateShots
Judy Chicago is an artist and author. To tie in with the 50th anniversary of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Chicago has created a mural on the walls of the Grail Silo in Liverpool which responds to the lyrics of...
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Fahrelnissa Zeid – 'She Was the East and the West' | Tate
Turkish Princess and artist Fahrelnissa Zeid is best known for her large-scale abstract compositions blending Byzantine, Islamic and Western influences. To better understand the artist’s inspirations, we travel to Jordan to meet...
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Sunil Gupta – ‘Being in the Dark Room is Healing’ | TateShots
Photographer Sunil Gupta talks about how his work in the dark room helped him deal with his HIV positive diagnosis. Sunil Gupta was born in New Delhi in 1953 and went to New York City in the 70s to study business. While there he began to...
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Van Gogh – Challenging the 'Tortured Genius' Myth | Tate
We explore how it is no longer useful to think of Vincent van Gogh's talent as a result of his poor mental health. This video contains language used by Van Gogh to describe his mental health. The way we speak about mental health has...
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Takis – ‘I Know How to Use Energy’ | TateShots
Meet Greek artist Takis whose career spans more than seventy years. The artist's pioneering kinetic sculptures use a combination of magnets and electricity to create mesmerising pieces that float, generate light or resonate sound. We...
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Dorothea Tanning – Pushing the Boundaries of Surrealism | TateShots
Discover Dorothea Tanning, the artist who pushed the boundaries of surrealism. Dorothea Tanning was an American surrealist artist whose career spanned over seven decades. Self-taught, her early paintings depict with precision dream-like...
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Don McCullin on Photographing War | TateShots
Hear photographer Don McCullin describe the emotions of photographing war. See a comprehensive retrospective of the legendary British photographer Don McCullin at Tate Britain until 6 May 2019: https://goo.gl/prXZBp Audio courtesy of...
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María Fernanda Cardoso – ‘I’m in Awe with the Small’ | Tate
Meet María Fernanda Cardoso, a Colombian artist based in Sydney, Australia. Cardoso creates art that explores nature and its links to culture and science. ‘For me, art is freedom, and of course it’s informed by the natural world’, says...