The film, Gerhard Richter Painting is now out and here’s a short taster.

You can get info about the film here http://www.gerhard-richter-painting.de/english/

Another great quote laden film from the Agents of Change featuring a group of artists working together to start, build upon, enhance and then switch direction on each of the paintings. Each brings their own take on the work before passing the baton on to someone else with absolutely no idea of how much of their work will remain at the end of the night.

The outcome? Something no one individual could have created.

As Remi/Rough says, “Keep rotating, keep collaborating.”

Sargam Griffin takes us through her creative process as a painter, sometimes applying up to 40 layers to create depth she is looking for in her large scale works.

Mary Heilmann talks about the development of her painting  technique and the influence of Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning on her work.

Katherine Westerhout, “the slowest photographer on the planet”, explores a series of abandoned buildings in the Detroit area.

Her work starts out with online research of the interiors with the help of the enthusiasts and amateurs who are documenting these empty spaces.

Grayon Perry discusses the tension between craft and art and the rise of new crafts including digital culture.

Suzanne Tick talks about expanding the boundaries of weaving and how that ties in with the reuse of everyday materials that we just throw away.

Brussels based American, Gordon Hopkins talks about using oil bars as his primary material while he prepares for this weekend’s Brussels Accessible Art Fair.

As well as his large scale pattern based paintings, he shows us some new modular techniques he is developing, painting on to smaller wood blocks, coating them with an epoxy layer and then clamping the smaller works together with bulldog clips to create a larger whole.

Mary Shelley is a self-taught artist who creates pieces from white pine board, carving the picture and then finishing it with acrylics. In this video she’s seen at the Ithaca Farmers’ Market (where she can be found most Saturdays in the Summer) demonstrating the carving skills she developed as carpenter and building her own house.

You can also follow the development of one of her commissions from sketch to completed work over on her blog

Not a video on the artistic process today so much as a tribute to Dennis Hopper who was well know for his acting, but less so for his life as a visual artist himself and an extensive collector.

In this video he walks us through his collection and gives us insights into his approach to collecting.

The opening section of this talk shows a brilliant example of someone creating a fantastic outcome without fully understanding how they will get there or what the end result will look like.

The lecture is also a thought provoking tour through the linguistic origins of the words we use to describe creations.

Glass, steel and concrete aren’t the most flexible materials in the world, but in this interview Richard Wilson discusses how he threw these rules out the window (quite literally) and created, “Turning The Place Over”.

Watching the wall rotating in situ is really quite awe inspiring.

Hat tip to Paul Morris for pointing me to it.

Leigh Palmer talks about the energy he derives from the Hudson River Valley, the restrictions it places upon him and how painting would have been very different had he never moved there. He also reflects on how he’s able to bring modern concerns to his traditional style of painting. Short and sweet, enjoy.

Yesterday we saw inside the studio of  Julie Mehretu where we saw her assistants creating her 80 ft paintings.  Here at the vernissage of Grey Area at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin she goes into more depth about the architectural inspirations for her abstract creations.

Four studio assistants talk about their role in creating the enormous paintings of Julie Mehretu.

Tomorrow, an interview with the woman herself, talking about how she conceives such enormous and geometrically complex works.

“If you want to make more that one picture or sculpture a year you need to get help”. I’m not sure every artist would agree with that, but this video certainly gives some insight into the methods and scale of a modern day successful art studio.

This extract from a documentary on Henry Moore covers the 1930s and 1940s and examines his political activity at the time and the sketches that he made in the underground stations that people used as bomb shelters during the London Blitz.

I’ve been looking around for a good Gilbert & George piece for a while now so I was really happy when this one surfaced the other day.

Revisiting Australia, 37 years after their first performance there, the pair talk about what brought them to the realisation that they are the art and why they almost always appear in their art. There’s even an impromptu performance at the end.

Thanks to the Art Gallery of New South Wales for permission to use it on the site.

Abstract painter Lynne Taetzsch walks us through the birth of a painting that she struggled with at different stages in its creation. She describes herself as a problem solver and like in so many other walks of life, stepping away from a puzzle and then looking at it afresh the next day is often the best way to progress.

You can see more of Lynne’s work on her website.

“The horror is in the viewer’s mind not in the artist’s ability”,  says it all. Damien Hirst examines works by Francis Bacon that have influenced his art, peering closer and closer until the pictures disappear into paint.