Extraordinary Portraits
Follows passionate art collector Tinie Tempah as he challenges artists to turn personal and powerful experiences into portraits.
Cast:Tinie Tempah , Bill Bailey , Stuart Pearson Wright , Bella Kotak , Christy Lee Rogers , Belinda Eaton
S1.E1 ∙ Episode 1
Artist Roxana Halls paints twin sisters who survived a near-fatal crocodile attack while swimming in a lagoon in Mexico. In the process, we learn how their attitudes towards body image and family have been affected by the event.
S1.E2 ∙ Episode 2
Photographer 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 photoshoot.
S1.E3 ∙ Episode #1.3
Street artist Dale Grimshaw gets to know Patrick, a personal trainer from south London who was famously photographed carrying an injured man to safety during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020.
S1.E4 ∙ Episode #1.4
Kelvin 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 body.
S1.E5 ∙ Episode #1.5
Artist Thomas Croft paints the portrait of Mark, a former Royal Marine who survived an explosion during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2007 that has cost him both legs and his right arm.
S1.E6 ∙ Episode #1.6
Portrait artist Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an 88-year-old dairy farmer from Devon who refuses to slow down. Alec continues to get up at dawn to care for his cows and ride his tractor.
