What Do Artists Do All Day?

Intimate observational portraits exploring the working lives of leading artists. Exploring the studio and home of print-maker Norman Ackroyd.

Taxidermist Polly Morgan, described by Banksy as `Britain's hottest bird stuffer', is one of Britain's most high profile young artists. Her macabre and unsettling works, including a coffin bursting with open-mouthed chicks and a rat asleep in a champagne glass, have won her celebrity fans includi...

Documentary showing the painter Jack Vettriano at work in his studio. Vettriano is arguably Britain's most popular artist, with his nostalgic paintings of a lost age of glamour being instantly recognisable and his most famous work, `The Singing Butler' (which he copied from a guide to illustratio...

With a new exhibition of her work opening in London in June 2013, this film follows artist Cornelia Parker as she prepares for the show, working on several new pieces including her latest project - bronze sculptures of cracks in the pavement. In the past, Cornelia has blown up a shed, squashed a ...

This documentary offers a snapshot of the life of artist and writer John Byrne, as he completes a large mural for the dome of the King's Theatre in Edinburgh.

Edmund de Waal is widely known as the author of best selling family memoir `The Hare with Amber Eyes'. He is also an internationally acclaimed artist. He trained as a potter, studying ceramics in Japan and his works are in the collections of over forty international museums. Filmed mainly in de W...

Following Jerwood Painting Prize winner, Shani Rhys James, as she prepares for a new exhibition opening at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Following photographer Tom Wood as he visits Mayo in the West of Ireland to photograph the landscape and the people for a new book.

Documentary following Frank Quitely over the course of a day and a night, as he works on a page from his latest work, `Jupiter's Legacy'. Frank Quitely is the alter ego of Glaswegian comic-book artist Vincent Deighan.

A profile of Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, who stages exuberant, anarchic performances in which everything from Dante and Karl Marx to drag acts and `Stars Wars' are drawn together to explore issues including gender politics and personal debt.

A day in the working life of Edinburgh born Albert Watson, one of the world's most successful commercial and fashion photographers.

A documentary film following Antony Gormley and his team in their busy King's Cross studio, as they prepare a new work called `Tanker Field'.

Michael Craig-Martin has an ambition to paint all mass-produced, everyday objects in the world. This film gives a rare insight into the artist at work in his London studio and his preparations for a major sculpture exhibition at Chatsworth House.

Akram Khan is one of the UK's most exciting and experimental dancers and this film follows him to Seville for a collaboration with celebrated flamenco dancer Israel Galvan.

Explores Evelyn's collection of instruments, follows her in rehearsal and reveals the story of how a country girl from Aberdeenshire became a global percussion superstar.

Famous for destroying all his possessions, Michael Landy's thought-provoking art installations have often shown fascination with the idea of destruction. In 2010 his Art Bin project gave artists the chance to throw away their failed artworks and in summer 2014 he was invited to bring the Art Bin ...

Documentary following the Chapman brothers as they prepare for a new show in their home town of Hastings, which will include some new works expected to generate controversy.

Tracey Emin is today one of the most successful artists working anywhere in the world. In this film, we follow Emin at work in her studio in East London and as she prepares to stage an exhibition in Vienna.

A day with artist Derek Boshier at his studio as he works on a new painting and reflects on his life and career. Boshier burst onto the British art scene in the sixties as one of the young artists who pioneered the British pop art movement. He studied at the Royal College of Art and starred in Po...

Best known for 'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle', which appeared on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Yinka Shonibare MBE is one of Britain's foremost contemporary artists, this film follows Shonibare creating his latest figure and talking about his life and career.

For over five decades, Shirley Hughes has been entertaining young children with her lovingly illustrated picture books. From the adventures of Alfie to the stories of Dave and his favourite toy Dogger, Shirley has created some of our most popular children's books. In 2007, Dogger was voted the na...