Extraordinary Portraits (2022)
Musician and passionate art collector Tinie Tempah hopes to shine the light on everyday heroes within society by painting portraits of them. These everyday heroes have extraordinary stories and the artists hope to turn these stories into amazing portraits. Portraiture has traditionally been a method of commemorating powerful or wealthy figures in society, however, Tinie hopes to shine a light on the everyday heroes within out society. Famous artists include street artist Dale Grimshaw and hyper-realist Kelvin Okafor.
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Episodes
- 1 1. Episode 12022-01-06 · 29mMusician and art collector Tinie matches members of the public with extraordinary stories to a selection of distinctive and celebrated portrait artists. The artists are then challe
- 2 2. Episode 22022-02-06 · 29mPhotographer Christy Lee Rogers meets Cee Cee, a model with albinism, and helps her work through her struggles with self-belief by taking her on a breathtaking underwater photoshoo
- 3 3. Episode 32022-03-13 · 29mStreet artist Dale Grimshaw gets to know Patrick, who was famously photographed carrying an injured man to safety during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020.
- 4 4. Episode 42022-03-20 · 29mKelvin Okafor, a hyperreal artist who specialises in pencil portraits, meets and draws Catrin Pugh, a survivor of a bus crash that left her with burns across 96 per cent of her bod
- 5 5. Episode 52022-03-27 · 29mThomas Croft, the artist behind Portraits for NHS Heroes, meets Mark, a former Royal Marine who survived an explosion during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2007. The injuries Mar
- 6 6. Episode 62022-04-03 · 29mPortrait artist Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an 88-year-old dairy farmer from Devon who refuses to slow down. Portrait artist Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an 88-year
Cast
Bill BaileySelf - Presenter / NarratorImages
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