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Pauline Bewick: Yellow Man, Grey Man

    • Director

      Maurice Galway

    • Credits

      Producer: Maurice Galway

  • Category

    Documentary

In Pauline Bewick: Yellow Man, Grey Man, artist Maurice Galway examines the hugely successful series of work by Pauline known as The Yellow Man. "I was searching for the perfect society. That's why I went to the South Pacific and that's why I invented The Yellow Man. He, to me, is perfection. I created The Yellow Man because if our society were made up of Yellow Men it would be a marvellous place," Pauline Bewick. However, in the course of their long friendship, Maurice discovered the existence of her Grey Man, drawings dealing with a much darker side of the artist and much less well-known. Filmed in a series of pellucid Kerry locations, this handsome film captures the charm and energy of one of Ireland’s finest artists on her home ground.

Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

52 minutes, Ireland, 2013, Colour


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