Typist Artist Pirate King review: warm-hearted portrait of outsider artist Audrey Amiss
Carol Morley’s fictionalised portrait of an overlooked British artist is generous to its subject but disjointed as a film
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Carol Morley’s fictionalised portrait of an overlooked British artist is generous to its subject but disjointed as a film
A talented artist whose career was derailed by mental illness, Audrey Amiss left behind an astonishing archive of paintings and journals. Carol Morley draws on this in her latest film to create a portrait of a vivid, tragic, hilarious heroine.
Audrey Amiss spent 30 years as a civil service typist – but led a secret life as an artist. Macdonald, Monica Dolan and Carol Morley relive the hectic shoot that turned her amazing life into a quirky road movie
Carol Morley’s affectionate imagining of the Sunderland-born artist Audrey Amiss, whose career was hampered by mental illness, is an evocative depiction of an unjustly neglected figure.
Carol Morley’s warm and sympathetic film imagines the artist, whose mental illness curtailed her ambitions, on a tragicomic road trip to exhibit her work