TV tonight: what Turner’s private sketchbooks reveal about his life
Fans and experts consider whether the artist may have been neurodivergent. Plus: inside the biggest Irish dancing challenge in the world. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoJMW Turner...
By Hollie Richardson, Ellen E Jones and Ali Catterall · The Guardian Culture
Fans and experts consider whether the artist may have been neurodivergent. Plus: inside the biggest Irish dancing challenge in the world. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC Two JMW Turner is an enigma. But while he didn’t leave behind a diary, he did leave 37,000 private sketches that give clues to his character – and they have been made public for the first time. Clinical psychologist Orna Guralnik, actor Timothy Spall (who played the painter in Mr Turner), artist Tracey Emin and naturalist Chris Packham are some of the fans who search for insight via these pages – and question whether he was neurodivergent. Hollie Richardson Continue reading...