Long shot : I've been looking at old favourite Arts programmes on youtube this evening but there's one which was a vivid memory that I can't find any mention of.
I'm hoping someone might be able to help me identify the subject of the film. I had always had it in my head that the subject was called "Malcolm Cooper" but it seems likely from my examination of the South Bank Show archive/directory that this is mistaken ( although equally it may not have been the South Bank Show at all).
The film was about an artist who had had a very successful career producing fine art following a longish period in prison. At the end of the film he was shown his early prison pieces and came to the uncomfortable realisation that it was in fact by far the best work he had ever made: I seem to recall that the programme was left hanging with the thought that he may in fact give up art altogether on the strength of that disillusionment.
It may be that it predates the time when video recorders were common ( we got ours in 1984 (betamax) for the LA Olympics so I'm not expecting to be able to see it but I'd like to know who the artist was and whether he did give up?
