The Artist in Time: A Generation of Great British Creatives

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An inspiring and intimate look at the work of a generation of British artists across all disciplines. The Artist in Time brings together twenty creatives from across the UK, with photographs and interviews that disclose their daily working habits and motivations. All born before 1950, this is a collective portrait of a generation who have shaped our artistic landscape. They provide a range of different answers to the question 'what makes an artist?', and a set of insights into what makes up a creative life. Giving you access to the studio and working spaces of a diverse group of painters, poets, choreographers, filmmakers, illustrators, musicians, photographers, sculptors, writers and creators, The Artist in Time is a handbook for creativity and inspiration, made up of artists from all backgrounds who have all in their own way shaped, and continue to shape, the creative landscape of the United Kingdom.

Chris Fite-Wassilak is a writer and critic based in London. He is a regular contributor to Art Monthly, Art Papers and frieze, and a contributing editor of ArtReview. His books include the survey publication Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art (Now) (ed. Claire Doherty, Art/Books, 2015) and the book of essays Ha-Ha Crystal (Copy Press, 2016). Ollie Harrop is a photographer based in Margate. His commercial clients include The Freud Museum, Tate Galleries, The Zabludowicz Collection, Turner Contemporary and The Arts Council, with large scale commissions at the Olympic Park and Dreamland Margate. His monograph I Love It When You Sing published in 2020. The Baring Foundation is a grant-making charity which protects and advances human rights and promotes inclusion. For the past 10 years, it has focused its arts funding on promoting creativity for older people.

Sensitively edited, Chris Fite-Wassilak's interviews have been formed into standalone monologues that, together with Ollie Harrop's intimate photographs, feel direct and personal, as though we are visiting these artists in their homes or studios. * Times Literary Supplement * ... the glossy, magazine-like publication gives a platform to older painters, poets, illustrators ... there are nuggets of wisdom scattered throughout ... One of the book's great strengths is Harrop's sensitive and insightful photographs * Studio International *