Classic cinema with Typist Artist Pirate King at The Dock

Carol Morley creates a vivid portrait of neglected artist Audrey Amiss in her latest film, Typist Artist Pirate King - set to be on The Dock screens on March 6 at 11.30am.

Audrey Amiss (1933-2013) is a talented artist whose career was derailed by mental illness, left behind an extensive archive of paintings and journals, which acclaimed filmmaker Ms Morley explored in a hilarious but tragic heroine journey. 

Audrey's archive comprises 80 boxes and 50,000 sketches and paintings, and on her passport, she wrote her occupation as "Typist Artist Pirate King." 

She did not consider herself an outsider artist, writing to her sister Dorothy: "I was once in the tradition of social realism, also called the kitchen-sink school of painting. But I am now avant-garde and misunderstood."

Carol Morley has shaped Audrey's archive into a darkly funny road movie that interweaves the artist's artworks and journal entries into a road trip that Audrey goes on with her psychiatric nurse, Sandra, to a gallery in Sunderland where she wishes to exhibit her art.

Starring Monica Dolan as Audrey Amiss, Kelly MacDonald as Sandra, and Gina McKee as Dorothy, Audrey's sister.

Admissions are €5 and include tea or coffee. Tickets available at https://www.thedock.ie/whats-on/classic-cinema-6.