Extraordinary Portraits
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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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Cast
Bill Bailey
Tinie Tempah
David James
Seasons
Renowned artists create portraits of people with extraordinary stories.
- Ep 1
1.Episode 1
06-01-202229mMusician 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...
- Ep 2
2.Episode 2
06-02-202229mPhotographer 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...
- Ep 3
3.Episode 3
13-03-202229mStreet 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.
- Ep 4
4.Episode 4
20-03-202229mKelvin 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...
- Ep 5
5.Episode 5
27-03-202229mThomas 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...
- Ep 6
6.Episode 6
03-04-202229mPortrait 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...