Francis Bacon is the essential British painter of the twentieth century. This film is a rigorous and revealing portrait of one of the few artists who has truly changed the way we see and understand ourselves.
View Details >>Produced alongside a major retrospective exhibition, organised by London’s Barbican Art Gallery, this film provides a rare chance to experience Helen Chadwick’s works.
View Details >>Henry Moore is arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century and his large-scale sculptures are centrally sited in many major cities across Europe and North America.
View Details >>Portraits are one of the great subjects of British art, and from school photos to passports, portraits are also central to all our lives. In two films for Five, Fiona Shaw goes on a journey…
View Details >>Art that was “headbuttingly impossible to ignore” is how Charles Saatchi describes the work that intrigued him as he started to collect British art in the early 1990s. This fast-paced and fascinating film features 100 of these artworks.
View Details >>The Sculpture 100 is a journey through one hundred public sculptures made across one hundred years. In 1905, Thomas Brock and Aston Webb began work on their final grand celebration of Victoria Regina, the Victoria Memorial, at one end of London’s Mall.
View Details >>The Victorians were obsessed by the nude in art. For many nineteenth century painters and sculptors the naked body, both male and female, was central to exotic historical fantasies and elaborate allegories of imperial power.
View Details >>The Lindisfarne Gospels is the greatest of Anglo-Saxon treasures and one of the world’s great works of art.
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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”.
