Produced in association with Tate and Artsworld. In the early nineteenth century John Constable revolutionised landscape painting and the way in which we see the natural world.
View Details >>At the time of his death in 1904, George Frederic Watts was the most celebrated artist in Britain. Produced alongside centenary exhibitions at Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, this film explores the artist’s works and remarkable life.
View Details >>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 >>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 painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. Produced alongside the National Maritime Museum’s spectacular exhibition, this film reviews Hodges’ career and his complex and beautiful art.
View Details >>Gillian Ayres defined her career by ranges of style and manner. Early decorative images in the 1960s gave way to a return to extreme and painterly extraction in the Seventies before later moving back to oil painting and her exclusive colorful style for which she is so well known.
View Details >>The film focuses on the influences of Sandra Blow and how she practiced her art during the time she was preparing for for the 2006 Royal Academy Exhibition. This would sadly be her last exhibition as she sadly passed away that year.
View Details >>Michael Craig-Martin’s style is one of detached conceptualism and minimal construction.
View Details >>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”.