The process of creating art, from the artists and art lovers

Sometimes a painting just won’t work… move on.

Sometimes a painting...

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Abstract painter Lynne Taetzsch walks us through the birth of a painting that she struggled with at different stages in its creation. She describes herself ...

Damien Hirst discusses Francis Bacon

Damien Hirst discuss...

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"The horror is in the viewer's mind not in the artist's ability",  says it all. Damien Hirst examines works by Francis Bacon that have influenced ...

Cleaning up. Art in reverse

Cleaning up. Art in ...

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Another great video showcasing creation vs destruction and the often very temporary nature of art works. This time though, we see three artists, Matt Crasner, Jihef ...

Why am I not doing the work I love the most?

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Joyce Polance talks about her return to painting in oils after a period of working with encaustics. The change was spurred by the fact that ...

Bringing art influences into design – Peter Saville

Bringing art influen...

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In this film for Arkitrip, Peter Saville, designer of the iconic New Order and Joy Division album covers discusses the influence of various artistic on ...

John Kingerlee – What Lies Beneath

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Nicely shot film of painter, John Kingerlee, talking about the influences of nature and religion on his work. He has moved to the "edge of ...

Barbara Probst – multi-camera works

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Can a photograph tell you more about the viewer than the subject of the picture? Barbara Probst's voyeuristic, multi-camera works definitely place the viewer squarely ...

Ghost village populated by art

Ghost village popula...

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This is an astonishing film by Agents of Change about a village in Scotland that never was. Built for a group of 500 oil workers, the ...

Peter Blake’s pick from the V&A

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Peter Blake talks about his time as a art student and the important role that the V & A Museum played both as a learning ...

Go on touch it. It’s concrete!

Go on touch it. It&#...

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Artist Cagney King talks us through a recent show. She expresses something many artists must experience; the sheer joy or seeing the work on display, rather than ...

The dynamic sphere

The dynamic sphere...

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Another black and white piece, but this time in stark contrast to the slower pace of the Francis Bacon interviews from earlier this week. This high ...

Concluding part of the Francis Bacon interview

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In part 2 of this interview, David Sylvester probes further into Bacon's uncomfortable relationship with his sitters and their reactions to his paintings. Aside from Bacon's ...

Francis Bacon TV interview from 1966

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An amazingly frank interview  inside Bacon's studio covering  the influence of religion, his methodology of working from photos rather than live models and his obsession ...

Continuous line video installation

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Using pictures tagged with the word "line" on Flickr and custom made software, video artist, Cristobal Mendoza has created a video installation based on a continuous ...

Paintings, movies and rum

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A brief survey of paintings from a Peter Doig retrospective held in Germany and an insight into the creation of his movie posters. To hear Doig ...