National Galleries of Scotland is featuring a short film on Jann Haworth as part of its 'Art & Film' programming, presenting the artist’s reflections on the personal and political origins of her practice. The film, titled 'Jann Haworth | Art & Fabric', centers on Haworth’s account of growing up around Hollywood film sets, her turn to sculpting with fabric, and the later murals she made to address the gender imbalance she saw in the imagery that helped define her reputation.
Haworth is presented in the film as a key figure of 1960s British Pop Art and as the co-creator of the album cover for The Beatles’ 'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band', one of the most recognizable images in popular music. The National Galleries of Scotland description links that work to a longer artistic trajectory, suggesting that the album cover’s visual language continued to shape Haworth’s thinking decades later.
According to the gallery’s accompanying text, Haworth speaks about Hollywood not simply as a backdrop to her early life but as a formative influence on the imagery and atmosphere of her art. The film also addresses her decision to work with fabric as a response to misogyny, framing that material choice as part of an artistic practice shaped by both experimentation and resistance.
The 'Art & Film' series is described by National Galleries of Scotland as exploring the connections between contemporary art and the social context in which it is made. In that context, Haworth’s story appears alongside a broader set of short films intended to show how artists articulate their passions, motivations and working methods through accessible online video.
The film is one of several highlights promoted in the gallery’s newsletter roundup, which also points audiences toward other shorts in related series. But 'Jann Haworth | Art & Fabric' is the item focused most directly on an individual artist’s practice, and on the relationship between biography, popular culture and the visual politics of making art.
No exhibition venue or live event is given in the source material for the film itself. The promoted item is available through National Galleries of Scotland’s online channels, under the 'Art & Film' strand, where the gallery describes Haworth’s account of how a Beatles album sleeve inspired her later effort to redress its gender imbalance through murals.
