TateShots

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!

'How does painting relate to performance art?'

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.

Ian Hamilton Finlay's greatest work is arguably Little Sparta, the garden he created outside his home in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.

Dia Al-Azzawi is one of Iraq’s most influential living artists.

Printing Show is a recreation of Daido Moriyama's 1974 performance of the same name.

Model Laura Bailey goes head to head with Rossetti's famous femme fatale 'Lady Lillith', and discusses the endurance of Pre-Raphaelite symbols in contemporary fashion photography.

Karen Elson compares her own experience of modelling with that of Pre-Raphaelite muse Elizabeth Siddal, Millais's long-suffering model for 'Ophelia'.

Model Daisy Lowe explores the role of Christina Rossetti as a Pre-Raphaelite muse and also as a creative force in her own right.

Now in its tenth year, The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund has enabled Tate to acquire many significant works by emerging artists for the national collection. This year TateShots was given unique access to a selection process that has never been filmed before. We followed the curators as they decided which works to purchase at this year’s fair. Over the ten years, 90 works by 60 significant international artists have been acquired. The Fund is organized and financed by Outset Contemporary Art Fund and enjoys support from Le Méridien Hotels and Resorts.