TateShots

Photographer Peter Fraser shows us around an exhibition of his work at Tate St Ives.

Allen Jones talks about turning the female form into furniture, in the name of art.

In the last years of his life, German artist Kurt Schwitters lived in exile in the Lake District, where he set about creating what he hoped would be his ultimate artwork, the ‘Merz Barn’.

In Zero to Infinity the spectator sees an inanimate structure come to life.

We look back at some of the year's art highlights as captured in our weekly video series TateShots. Happy new year 2013!

The film and video works in this exhibition focus on the tension between image and the viewer’s perception.

Artist Ibrahim El-Salahi discusses his work Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams 1 1962-3, a large-scale oil painting recently acquired by Tate.

Terry Frost's artistic career began in a Prisoner of War camp, where he met and was taught by artist Adrian Heath. It was the start of a journey that would see him become one of the most important British painters of his generation.

'I want everything I do to look spontaneous. It's not that I think illustration should necessarily be like that, but this is what I can do,' says Quentin Blake

Are these paintings or a stage set? Artist Lucy McKenzie presents us with an elegant room, complete with fake marbling, trompe l'oeil radiators and the scuffs and stains of years of inhabitation.