BBC
Extraordinary Portraits with Bill Bailey.
Info, Dokumentation • 14.02.2025 • 20:30 - 21:00
Male hand of artist holding paintbrush on background of canvas on easel. Professional painter drawing ocean wave in loft studio. Hobby concept
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Art, artist, painting
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Leeds UK, 14th Oct 2021: The English actor, comedian, musician and singer Bill Bailey
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Beaux-arts
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Originaltitel
Extraordinary Portraits
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GB
Produktionsdatum
2025
Info, Dokumentation
Comedian and art lover Bill Bailey matches a life-saving railway worker with a celebrated artist to create a well-deserved portrait. East Londoner Rizwan stopped someone trying to take their own life in his first week of working for London Underground. In eight years, Rizwan has stopped another 28 people from coming to harm. His training teaches him how to spot vulnerable people, but his gift is how he relates to them individually. Attempting to capture this remarkable man in a portrait is multimedia artist Jack Dickson, who describes himself as an 'artistic magpie'. He collects clues about his subjects' lives and then builds them into multilayered visual artworks. What will Rizwan and his family think of the finished result?