''What Do Artists Do All Day?'' is a documentary series, airing on
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002
. Film crews accompany various prominent artists as they go about their daily schedules and share insights into their working lives and creative processes.
Episodes
Series 1
*2013-03-19 – Series 1 – 1.
Norman Ackroyd
Norman Ackroyd (born 26 March 1938) is an English artist known primarily for his aquatint work. He lives and is based in Bermondsey, London.
Background
Ackroyd was born on 26 March 1938 in Leeds, Yorkshire. He attended Leeds College of Art fro ...
, the working life of Britain's celebrated landscape artist.
*2013-03-25 – Series 1 – 2. Polly Morgan, the taxidermist's strange and wonderful art
*2013-04-08 – Series 1 – 3.
Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951) is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting ''The Singing Butler'' became a best-selling image in Britain.
Early life
Jack Vettriano was born and grew up in the industrial seaside town of Met ...
, the popular artist at work in his studio.
*2013-06-04 – Series 1 – 4.
Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Ann Parker (born 14 July 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.John Byrne, artist and writer, completes a mural for King's Theatre in Edinburgh.
*2013-11-06 – Series 1 – 6.
Edmund de Waal
Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, (born 10 September 1964) is a contemporary English artist, master potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or th ...
, ceramic artist, author of the memoir ''The Hare with Amber Eyes''
*2013-11-13 – Series 1 – 7.
Shani Rhys James
Shani Rhys James MBE (born 1953)BBC Wales ArtShani Rhys James last updated 28 September 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2011. is a Welsh painter based in Llangadfan, Powys. She has been described as "arguably one of the most exciting and successful p ...
, Welsh painter as she prepares for a new exhibition.
*2014-02-25 – Series 1 – 8. Tom Wood, photographer at work in Mayo in the west of Ireland.
*2014-03-04 – Series 1 – 9.
Frank Quitely
Vincent Patrick Deighan (born 1968), better known by the pen name Frank Quitely, is a Scottish comic book artist. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Grant Morrison on titles such as '' New X-Men'', ''We3'', '' All-Star Supe ...
, alter ego of Glaswegian comic-book artist, Vince Deighan.
*2014-03-13 – Series 1 – 10. Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, the performance artist's first solo UK show in Nottingham.
*2014-03-11 – Series 1 – 11. Albert Watson photographs the landscape of the Isle of Skye.
*2014-03-26 – Series 1 – 12.
Antony Gormley
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pla ...
and his team as they prepare a new work.
*2014-05-19 – Series 1 – 13.
Michael Craig-Martin
Sir Michael Craig-Martin (born 28 August 1941) is an Irish-born contemporary art, contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is known for fostering and adopting the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artw ...
at work in his London studio.
Series 2
*2014-10-12 – Series 2 – 1.
Evelyn Glennie
Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish people, Scottish percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015.
Early life
Glennie was born in Methlick, Aberdeenshire in Sco ...
, how the Dame became a global percussion superstar.
*2014-10-15 – Series 2 – 2. Akram Khan, the creation of TOROBAKA, the dance collaboration with Israel Galvan.
*2014-10-22 – Series 2 – 4.
Michael Landy
Michael Landy (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation '' Break Down'' (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the ''Art Bin'' project (2010) at the ...
as he takes his Art Bin project to Yokohama.
*2014-11-05 – Series 2 – 5.
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers. Their subject matter tries to be deliberately shocking, including, in 2008, a series of works that ...
as they prepare for a new show in Hastings.
Series 3
*2015-06-08 – Series 3 – 1.
Tracey Emin
Tracey Karima Emin, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Associate of the Royal Academy, RA (; born 3 July 1963) is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawi ...
, in her studio, preparing for an exhibition in Vienna.
*2015-06-15 – Series 3 – 2.
Sue Webster
Timothy Noble (born 1966) and Susan Webster (born 1967), are British artists who work as a collaborative duo. They are associated with the post-YBA generation of artists.
Early lives and careers
Noble and Webster attended fine art foundation ...
, at work on new projects, including a cook book.
*2015-08-24 – Series 3 – 3.
Derek Boshier
Derek Boshier (born 1937, in Portsmouth) is an English artist, among the first proponents of British pop art.
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works on a new painting and reflects on his life.
*2015-08-26 – Series 3 – 4. Peter Blake, following the process of his latest work.
Series 4
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Katie Paterson
Katie Paterson (born 1981) is a Fife-based visual artist from Glasgow, Scotland, having previously lived and worked in Berlin whose artworks concern translation, distance, and scale. Paterson holds a BA from Edinburgh College of Art (2004) and a ...
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Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived i ...
Series 5
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Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar (born 9 June 1981) is a British-American sitar player, producer, film composer and activist. She was the youngest and first woman to receive a British House of Commons Shield; she has had 7 Grammy Awards nominations and was the ...
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Raqib Shaw
Raqib Shaw (born 1974) is an Indian-born, London-based artist. He is known for his opulent and intricately detailed paintings of imagined paradises, inlaid with vibrantly coloured jewels and enamel. His paintings and sculptures evoke the work of O ...