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Creativity and process
How Art Made The World: The Day Pictures Were Born
We live in a highly complex world, one that requires many different skills and abilities to make our way through it. One of these skills is to look at lines and shapes that we see around us and give meaning to them.
Design
Sam Maloof helped found the studio furniture movement in America. Fifty years later his functional art still defines the highest standards. He’s viewed by many as the grand master of American craft furniture. Here, Maloof opens the doors to his legendary workshop in Rancho Cucamonga.
Drawing
The Artist’s Life: Shelley Reeves
Shelley prepares for a big opening in Edmonton on the heels of a very successful show in Montreal. She paints in her studio and candidly describes her current work – several impressive and ample portraits.
Film / Video
Jeff Winch visits one of the shoot sites for what will become his life-size photo-based installation, Habitat. He also walks through his Hound Project, a public space installation in which he used a slick ad campaign to run his dog for mayor, then prime minister.
Installation / Performance
Art In Progress: Patricia Cronin
This profile of the New England artist includes works of a series of horse portraits, watercolours depicting lesbian sex and a sarcophagus lid Memorial to a Marriage.
Jewellery
This series visits successful Maori artisans around Aotearoa finding out about their art and their life. All the narration is in Te Reo Maori without English subtitles. This episode features Alex Nathan, a Maori jeweller and carver.
Painting
This twelve part series explores the lives and works of some of art history’s most influential artists including: Piero della Francesca, Holbein, Caravaggio, Constable and Whistler. Shot in ten countries and in over forty churches and galleries, Tim Marlow takes us on a unique tour of the life and times of the artists.
Photography
Art In Progress: Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson uses photography to capture moments of great drama and tension. Each still image appears to be a single frame of a movie. Follow the leading photographer as he stages his disquieting views of everyday life. Using actors and sets, Crewdson is said to make, rather than take photographs.
Sculpture / 3D
Art In Progress: Patricia Cronin
This profile of the New England artist includes works of a series of horse portraits, watercolours depicting lesbian sex and a sarcophagus lid Memorial to a Marriage.