Lily Cole’s Art Matters
Lily Cole’s Art Matters
Series starts Tuesday 19th March 8pm Sky Arts 1 HD and Sky Go
Fashion model and art history graduate Lily Cole delves inside the studios and minds of six leading artists in the new documentary series Lily Cole’s Art Matters which receives its television premiere on Tuesday 19th March at 8pm on Sky Arts 1 HD.
Lily Cole’s Art Matters will see Lily embark on a fascinating journey with the renowned artists Antony Gormley, Christo, Tacita Dean, Marc Quinn, Fiona Banner and Gabriel Orozco. In each episode, Lily spends two days with an artist and follows them into their studio to discover their artistic processes. She accompanies them to their places of inspiration as they discuss the genesis of their work and how their lives as artists really began.
Lily, who has modelled extensively from the age of 14 for some of the world’s leading fashion houses, graduated from Cambridge University in 2011 with a double first in History Of Art. While Lily has embarked on a successful acting career since leaving university, Lily Cole’s Art Matters is her first presenting role and her first foray into arts programming. Cole’s fresh and informative approach creates an accessible inroad into the drive, ideas and projects of some of the most intriguing and controversial pioneers of visual art today.
Lily Cole’s Art Matters: Antony Gormley Tuesday 19th March 8pm
Lily Cole spends two days with Turner Prize winner Antony Gormley, OBE. His major public works include the Angel Of The North (Gateshead) and One & Other (Trafalgar Square). He offers an insight into the discipline and patience needed to make his trademark body casts, which require him to sit perfectly still and wrapped in plaster for hours on end. Lily and Antony also travel to Hamburg to experience the artist’s newest installation called the ‘Horizon Field’.
Lily Cole’s Art Matters: Christo Tuesday 26th March 8pm
Christo is best known for his wrapped installations, fromthe Reichstag building to pavements, coastal stretches and entire islands. Lily Cole’s global adventures take her to the desert of Abu Dhabi where the determined artist plans to build what promises to be the largest art structure in the world, a project that he has spent more than 30 years and tens of millions of dollars trying to conceive.
Lily Cole’s Art Matters: Tacita Dean Tuesday 2nd April 8pm
Lily travels to Berlin to spend two days with contemporary artists Tacita Dean. Over her 20 year career Tacita has become renowned for working with 16mm film. Lily discovers how the artist uses celluloid as a canvas and, scouring a flea market together, Tacita encourages Lily to purchases a film splicing kit in order to teach her about the tactile processes of film editing.
Lily Cole’s Art Matters: Marc Quinn Tuesday 9th April 8pm
Marc Quinn invites Lily into his studio in London to explore his painting techniques as he reveals his fascination with flowers, eyes and human identity. Travelling to Monaco, Lily tours his recent exhibition at the Monaco Institute of Oceanography and discovers how some of his works have been inspired by the birth of his children.
Lily Cole’s Art Matters: Fiona Banner Tuesday 16th April 8pm
Fiona Banner’s work explores the problems and possibilities of written language. Fiona’s witty personality is revealed when she convinces Lily to pose nude for a portrait made out of text. Banner also opens the doors to the ‘boat’ perched on top of the South Bank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, a one-bedroom hotel she designed in collaboration with David Kohn Architects.
Lily Cole’s Art Matters: Gabriel Orozco Tuesday 23rd April 8pm
In the final episode, Lily meets Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco who uses the urban landscape and everyday objects found within it to twist conventional notions of reality and engage viewer’s imaginations. Lily travels to Pennsylvania for a guided tour around Gabriel’s unconventional studio and discovers his anarchic side by exploring the notion of ‘play’ with some boomerang throwing.
“Lily Cole’s immense curiosity about contemporary art has helped grant her access to some of the most intriguing, controversial and ground breaking contemporary artists, for this, her first ever art series,” comments James Hunt, director of Sky Arts. “Her unique approach offers us compelling insight into their personalities and working practices, Sky Arts customers are going to love Lily’s enthusiasm and how she effortlessly enters into the world of Antony, Christo and the other esteemed artists.”
Lily Cole’s Art Matters marks a further development for Sky Arts which champions innovative and original art series, and which underlines Sky’s promise to deliver high-quality, exclusive content to customers, supported by a commitment to increase investment in home-grown programming to £600 million by 2014.
Proposed credit:
“Lily Cole’s Art Matters starts Tuesday 19th March, 8pm on Sky Arts 1 HD and Sky Go”
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT
Katherine Solomon PR Manager, Sky Press Office
T: 0207 032 0599
E:
Dominic Collett Sky Arts Publicist, Sky Press Office
T: 0207 032 4892
E:
NOTES TO EDITOR
About Back2Back Productions
Lily Cole’s Art Matters - back2back is an independent production company creating challenging and thought-provoking television programmes. back2back has earned a reputation for quality, factual film-making with creative vision. Our documentaries have been sold to broadcasters in the UK and across the world, and new projects and commissions are in constant development. back2back specialise in high quality factual programming, covering a wide range of issues, but not afraid to explore the more unusual and shocking sides of life. Drawing on an impressive list of contributing talent, back2back is a busy film-making house making highly visual, thought-provoking TV.
About Sky Arts
Sky Arts offers an eclectic mix of the best music, arts, biographies, chat shows, film, drama and comedy. Sky is the only broadcaster in the UK and Ireland with channels dedicated solely to the arts, with 48 hours of the best arts content from around the world across Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 2 daily. Sky Arts now reaches more than 6 million viewers every month.
Recent highlights include Playhouse Presents… a series of one-off comedies and dramas starring renowned talent including Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Thompson, Sir Tom Jones, Brenda Blethyn, David Tennant and Alison Steadman. The channel was also responsible for resurrecting the much-loved South Bank Show and The South Bank Show Awards. Sky Arts also encourages new formats and methods for accessing the arts, working with the ENO and National Gallery to beam the world’s first live opera and first live opening night of an exhibition in 3D to cinemas across the UK and Ireland.
Sky Arts also seeks to connect with culture on the ground; creating and collaborating with the best of the arts in the UK and Ireland to bring new experiences to life. Sky Arts has collaborated with a number of arts organisations including the English National Ballet and has supported the Hay Festival as broadcast partner since 2006. The Sky Arts Ignition Series launched in in 2011 to invest in the arts landscape of the UK. The Series will seek to collaborate with six arts organisations over the next three years in the creation of brand new works; Sky Arts Ignition Series: Futures Fund will support five young artists with a bursary of £30,000 each, enabling Sky Arts to back the creation of new works of art as well as nurture emerging talent.
Follow us on twitter @skyarts. See sky.com/arts
About Sky
Sky is the UK and Ireland’s leading home entertainment and communications company. Around 40% of all homes have a direct relationship with Sky through its range of TV, broadband and home telephony services.
Sky is the UK’s biggest investor in television content, investing more than £2.3 billion a year in channels such as Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Living, Sky Arts, Sky Sports, Sky Movies and Sky News. Around two-thirds of Sky’s content spend is invested in the UK and Sky is the fastest-growing source of investment in original British programmes. More than 30 million people watch Sky content each week.
Alongside its commitment to offering customers a greater choice of high-quality content, Sky is a leading innovator. Customers enjoy total control and flexibility over their favourite TV through Sky+, watch TV on the move through Sky Go, and enjoy the best quality TV experience at home through High Definition and 3D.
Sky distributes its content broadly over several platforms, including satellite, cable, IPTV, mobile and WiFi. NOW TV, Sky’s second consumer brand, builds on the company’s leadership in internet TV. Sky is also the UK's fastest-growing home communications company and favourite ‘triple-play’ provider of TV, broadband and home phone.
Sky believes in making a wider contribution to the communities in which it operates by taking positive action on the environment, supporting grassroots sports and increasing access to, and participation in, the arts. Sky employs 23,000 people, has annual revenues of £6.8 billion and is estimated to support a £5.4 billion contribution to UK GDP. Sky is listed on the London Stock Exchange (BSY). www.sky.com/corporate