Archive
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What Do I Need to do to Make It OK?
Curator Liz Cooper discusses this exhibition at London’s Pumphouse Gallery, which investigates repair through the language of thread and textiles and explores the frustrations and liberations of contemporary artists challenging the conventions of craft
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Matthew Darbyshire: ‘If I can’t get hold of what I want, I’ll fake it’
The artist talks about design and consumer culture, the role of colour as a democratiser, the need to ‘fake it’ and why Baudrillard’s predictions are not coming true – yet
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Phyllida Barlow: Set
Barlow’s art is genuinely challenging. The stacks of timber and cemented detritus spattered with paint, frozen between creation and destruction, fulfil her aim of turning the gallery, and our experience of it, upside down
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Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity
Once dubbed ‘the High Priestess of Polka Dots, pioneer of naked happenings … smashing to smithereens the old social morality’, Yayoi Kusama has had a long career that has included painting, sculpture, installation, fashion and performance.
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The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film
This exhibition, which presents many canonical works from 1920s and 30s Russia from public and private collections in the west, makes clear that creativity, beauty and innovation can be put at the service of fear and repression
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Shona Illingworth: ‘Art practice is deeply important in a changing world’
The Danish-born artist Shona Illingworth, whose video and sound installations explore the mystery of memory, talks about her latest exhibition at FACT in Liverpool, UK, and her collaboration with psychologists in her artistic practice.
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Antony Donaldson: ‘Painting is a singular thing’
The artist talks about home visits from his tutors when he was at the Slade in the 1950s, being influenced by Nicolas de Staël and discussing pornography with the Beverly Hills sheriff’s department
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Broad and Broader
Eli and Edythe’s brilliantly realised dream of a palace for their art joins a developer’s brief to a philanthropist’s vision for downtown Los Angeles
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Celts: Art and Identity
The identity of the Celts might be as evasive as a will-o’-the-wisp, but as this wonderful exhibition shows, their art is as solid and evocative as it is beautiful
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Carl Plackman: Obscure Territories
Carl Plackman rarely discussed his work, which, spanning sculpture, drawing and installation, refuses to be defined. During his long overdue exhibition at Pangolin London, Studio International spoke to his former student, Mark Dunhill, to get some insights into the man…
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Anj Smith: ‘The figure is a device on which to hang my concerns’
The artist talks about the collapsing of genres, her desire to portray identity post gender and painting as a metaphor for something eternal
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Jennifer Rubell: Not Alone
American artist Jennifer Rubell explores motherhood through a series of participatory works. Looking to break the established rules of the gallery, she encourages viewers to hold a baby, eat eggs – and even take their clothes off in the gallery
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Tamar Ettun: ‘I am using the structure of a religious practice as a fold for my art-making’
The young Israeli-American sculptor talks about her Orthodox background, her beginnings in art, integration of sculpture and performance, and how art relates to her personal history
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YARAT: The Union of Fire and Water – Venice Biennale 2015
The Union of Fire and Water presents a historical and cultural superimposition of Baku and Venice as seen through the eyes of two artists, Rashad Alakbarov and Almagul Menlibayeva. Studio International talked to the artists, alongside the curator Suad Garayeva,…
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The Gap: Selected Abstract Art from Belgium
This group exhibition – curated by artist Luc Tuymans – brings together more than 40 works by 15 Belgian artists in an attempt to highlight the similarities and tensions between two different generations within Belgium
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Anita Glesta: ‘I would like this work to be a vehicle of communication – like a moving-image billboard’
The artist talks about the motivation behind her brightly coloured projection of frenzied fish on to the National Theatre as part of the Totally Thames festival
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Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield
In a project looking at how philanthropic giving to arts and culture can become a social norm in every 21st-century city, some of Europe’s leading private collectors are showing works – from Jake and Dinos Chapman to Fiona Tan to…
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Shani Rhys James: ‘I love the luxuriousness of a flower’s abstract shape’
The artist talks about her dramatic paintings, the significance of red and her own particular take on melancholia
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Bridget Riley: Learning From Seurat
Through the works of Georges Seurat, Bridget Riley learned about colour. His The Bridge at Courbevoie provided ‘a true masterclass … the best tutorial I ever had’ and he has remained a touchstone for her
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Petra Cortright: ‘I wanted to raise questions about the way we view women in a digital landscape’
The artist talks about moving from working on computers to painting, linking the two worlds to produce something physical translated from the digital, the importance of layering, surface, and light and making work out of computer errors or spam
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Chudamani Clowes: ‘I wanted to show immigration and migration in a positive light’
The artist talks about immigration, her personal connection to west London and the human tragedies that have inspired her most recent work
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Lowry by the Sea
This small gem of an exhibition comprising 17 pictures – oils on canvas and board; watercolour; felt tip and pencil drawings – showcases Lowry’s intense relationship with the ocean
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Julie Sass: Be-Bop Your Visual Acts (Shared Space)
Danish artist Julie Sass presents a cohesive body of new work as part of Copenhagen Arts Week that signals complex, painterly explorations in abstract minimalism
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Jerusalem Season of Culture 2015
This is a festival that involves talks, tours, performance and events rather than simply art objects, and it takes places in a place that has been a conflict zone for millennia. This year, to its credit, it tried to address…
