Produced by LadderMAN SDA this series of videos explores various aspects of the creative process.
Intensity and Repetition: neuroarthiostory and the art of Gerard Caris
LadderMAN SDA 20mins 2020
How much is creativity influenced by unconscious neurological activity? While writing on this subject art-historian Prof John Onians encountered the artist Gerard Caris and found an ideal subject on which to test his answer to this question. This short documentary from theartistlabourer.org explores not only the relationship between artworks and their sources, but also Onians’ thesis that a full study of art practices must accommodate advances in neuroscience in what he calls Neuroarthistory.
Subtitles available.
Stubbs’s Kongarou
LadderMAN SDA 15mins 2019
Every year Graham Crowley stages an exhibition in his Suffolk studio with the aim of show-casing contemporary painting and demonstrating the presence of a new movement which he calls Post-Conceptualism.
Neuroarthistory: an introduction with John Onians
LadderMAN SDA 7mins 2016
Professor John Onians introduces the research and concepts behind this ambitious history of European art which incorporates a neuroarthistorical approach to draw radically different conclusions about the nature of creativity from pre-history to the present.
The Artist Labourer 