A new film with a stellar cast tells the story and raises the profile of a Sunderland artist and archetypal flawed genius, Audrey Amiss. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, ...

“Don’t let people slip away” is one of Morley’s messages. It resounds through her latest film, Typist Artist Pirate King, an imagined late-life biopic of the social realist painter turned avant-garde ...

Audrey Amiss (Monica Dolan) was formerly a secretary and is a prolific amateur artist. And according to her passport, she’s a pirate and a king. She’s also a schizophrenic, although she contests the ...

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The Lady In The Van meets Thelma & Louise as one of Britain’s best and most underrated filmmakers, Carol Morley (Dreams Of A Life, The Falling), trains her lens on Audrey Amiss, an artist who was ...

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A first look at Line of Duty star Kelly Macdonald in new movie Typist Artist Pirate King has been revealed. The project, which was first announced back in 2021, sees the actress team up with ...

Hot wheels: between the government’s U-turn on banning fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 and militant motorists complaining about 20mph zones, it feels like cars have been hogging a lot of space in the ...

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominee Carol Morley (Out Of Blue) is underway in Yorkshire, England, on under-the-radar new feature Typist Artist Pirate King, which will star BAFTA winner Monica Dolan (The Dig), ...

If luck can play as big a part as deliberate re-assessment in burnishing an artist’s reputation, the case of Audrey Amiss is instructive. And for her, the stars aligned not once but twice. Born into a ...

Sounding for all the world like a Thom Yorke solo album, Typist Pirate Artist King is actually a fanciful biopic of neglected artist Audrey Amiss (the title comes from her listed occupation in her ...