… whose distinct and characterful music combines modern experimental sensibilities and playing techniques with the melody-driven lyricism of classical writing. Often blending an orchestral palette with more unusual instruments and found sounds, his progressive scores can move, unsettle and enrich in equal measure.
Most recently he scored the BBC1 & Sister Pictures series THE FOLLOWING EVENTS ARE BASED ON A PACK OF LIES (2023) for which he won the 2024 Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack – his second in three years.
Other notable works include the HBO & Sky Atlantic series LANDSCAPERS (2021), a genre-distorting true crime drama starring Olivia Colman and David Thewlis, for which he won multiple awards including the 2022 BAFTA for Best Original Music and his first Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack. His score for the feature film THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN (2021), a Victorian-era artist’s biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy, won him an ASCAP London Music Award, as well as being nominated for the 2023 Ivor Novello Awards and making the 2022 BAFTA Longlist for Best Original Film Score. His work on both these projects also saw him nominated for an IFMCA Award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year.
He is currently working on an 8-part thriller series for Apple TV.
Two very different women, Alice a formidable PA and Cheryl a best-selling fantasy author, become trapped in a triangle of epic proportions with Rob an eccentric and celebrated ecopreneur who may or may not be trying to destroy them both.
A devoted and mild-mannered British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in England.
English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.
In an Edinburgh cellar, two gunshots ring out. Across town, Max McCall is released from prison. These two events gradually come together as Max tries to rebuild his life and new arrival Erin tries to save hers.
Two brothers accidentally run over and kill an old man. Despite covering their tracks, their lives start to fall apart when neighbors and relatives of the dead man begin to have doubts about the way he died.
Set in a chip shop, a wildly creative young lady, the titular Nora, escapes her abusive father through her discovery of a film camera. The film follows Nora as she creates a cacophony of weird and wonderful films as a means of distraction from the tribulations she faces in her home life.
A group of spirits restlessly squabble in an abandoned country home, when one day a new couple unexpectedly move in.
Set in Dublin, Women on the Verge tells the darkly comic tale of three career-driven friends in their 30’s, at various stages of their lives, who share the same nagging concern – that whilst their friends and colleagues seem to be increasingly in control of their lives, their own lives seem to be moving in the opposite direction.
The wild and colourful second series focuses on manic depression and how a dynasty of mental illness can bleed down through generations of a family.
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice’s batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.
Zac, a highly strung city trader is searching the canals of Britain for his weird and wayward younger sister Alice who went missing on a narrowboat. Zac’s sanity starts to unravel and he begins to wonder if there may be a grander, wilder, much stranger explanation for her disappearance.
An ordinary British family and their friend are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table.
‘The soundtrack is perfect’
‘All trades contribute to the enlightening uncertainty in this production, but above all the chameleon-like soundtrack by Arthur Sharpe’ (translation from German)
‘A hauntingly beautiful soundtrack that tied in perfectly with the mood of the programme’
‘the music effectively became another character in the show with a sense of quirkiness and drama – which is hard to pull off, but done so with aplomb in this winning entry’
‘Arthur’s wide-ranging, complex score elevates the limited series… [his] music has brought dimension and humanity to what is so often dismissed as odd’
‘an entrancing, memorable score’
‘Electricity… such a beautiful piece of music’
‘soaring like some otherworldly violin’