Details
Directed by: Mark Cousins
Runtime: 1h 28min
Certificate: PG
Topics:
Arts & Culture
Last Screened:
Tue 12th Nov 2024
Mark Cousins explores the life and work of Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, telling the story of a remarkable artist with a magnificent obsession.
Born and raised in St Andrews, Barns-Graham was a member of the St Ives group of modernist artists, who lived in the Cornish seaside town from the Second World War onwards. One day in 1949, she climbed a Swiss glacier, and the profoundly transformative experience changed her and her art forever.
Through a cinematic immersion into her art and life, Cousins explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.
