Author: jaywp
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Joachim Koester: The Other Side of the Sky
With works by JMW Turner and constant reference to the surrealist artist Henri Michaux, Koester takes us on a journey of exploration through his influences
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Lin Tianmiao – interview: ‘Thread winding taught me to be patient’
Incorporating weaving, sewing and embroidery into her fine art practice, the multidisciplinary artist transforms ordinary objects made from commonplace materials into something rare, evocative and universal. Here, she talks about her work
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Andrea Ponsi: ‘I draw, therefore I am’
The architect, designer, writer and painter on how he went from building his own shelter in a South American palm grove to building furniture from copper piping, why the role of an artist or architect is to create harmony, and…
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Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection
Botticelli’s delicate illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy steal the show in this exhibition of prints and manuscripts from the Hamilton Collection. Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, head of the Courtauld, talks to us about them
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Chillida: Rhythm–Time–Silence
Three monumental sculptures of corten steel and granite, made in the closing years of Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida’s life, are now on show in Britain for the first time
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Chantal Joffe: ‘I want to make the painting feel like the person’
The artist talks about what she seeks to capture in a painting, how motherhood changed her, and why she is drawn to confessional poetry
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It looks like a wonder of the world’
Conrad Shawcross talks to Studio International about his new public sculpture, Paradigm, and shows us round his studio and the fabricator as the final pieces are being put together.
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Joe Graham: ‘Anchor is not quite a book about drawing, and yet it’s not quite a book that isn’t about drawing’
His new book, Anchor, presents 14 responses to the question: What is an outline? Here, he explains why he uses drawing as a form of investigation to explore philosophical ideas
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Anri Sala: Answer Me
Sound, music and history are brought together in this comprehensive look at Sala’s work, which includes videos, video installations, drawings and sculptures made over a 15-year period
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Julien Prévieux: ‘Humour is a good fighting trick’
From ‘hacking’ Google to responding to ads to tell employers why he doesn’t want their job, the French artist employs humour to explore, among other things, technology and copyright. Here, he explains the concepts behind his art, while Rachel Cook,…
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Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway
Astrup described himself as a naive naturalist painter, and his richly colourful landscapes are potent with narrative. This is the first major show outside Norway for an artist who has been overshadowed by his countryman Edvard Munch
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Maha Malluh: ‘I don’t see the point in creating new objects while we have a lot of waste around us’
The Saudi Arabian artist talks about the allure of working with found objects, why she considers gender to be immaterial, and the significance of hosting a women-only exhibition in 2016
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Kaleidoscope: The Indivisible Present
In the first of its exhibitions to celebrate its 50th birthday, the museum focuses on the examination of time and temporality by artists including Yoko Ono, Pierre Huyghe and Elizabeth Price
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Anthony Engi Meacock: ‘Bringing creative practice out of the art bubble and into a wider context is a really interesting thing’
The founder member of Assemble, which last year became the first architectural practice to win the Turner Prize, talks about the group’s work and ethos, and the benefits of combining the artist’s qualities of curiosity and openness with an architectural…
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Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic
Breaking the boundaries between 2D and 3D works, Betty Woodman’s ceramic assemblages resemble stage sets for dreams, filled with figments and fragments of imagination and memory
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Jerwood Encounters: Common Property
Through the work of six artists, including three new commissions, this exhibition looks at the thorny issue of copyright around art production
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Hector McDonnell: ‘My paintings have always been about personal experiences’
As well as a realist painter of everything from Northern Ireland’s infamous Maze prison to Rwanda after the genocide and the twin towers following 9/11, McDonnell is a prolific cartoonist and the author of books on Irish history
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Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection
“Andy took the world as it was and, in his own way, described it with amazing accuracy,” says curator Norman Rosenthal, who talks about trying “to tell a story through the pack of cards that is the [Hall] collection”. Studio…
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Superflex’s Rasmus Nielsen: ‘I would not call us do-gooders, but maybe doers’
The work of the Danish collective has included everything from designing a public park to producing soft drinks and biogas lamps for farmers. Rasmus Nielsen explains how the group started and its refusal to be boxed in
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Simon Fujiwara: White Day
A Harvey Nichols paper bag, a single branch from a plum tree and a pile of shaved fur coats are some of the objects Fujiwara uses to challenge our common perceptions and stereotypes, as he turns the gallery into a…
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Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists
By revisiting a key exhibition of German artists from 1974, the ICA reflects on art, its relationship to capitalism, and its potential to incite reform
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Collateral Drawing: ‘It’s like revealing the magic trick’
Co-curators and artists from the ongoing Collateral Drawing project reveal insights into their working processes and how exhibiting by products of their creation changes the way they think about their own practices
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Alice Anderson: ‘I don’t refuse this world, I just need to explore alternatives to live with it today’
The artist talks about her unique method of “memorising” and “recording” objects in copper wire, and explains how this helps her to slow down and maintain an intimacy with the world around her
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Maud Sulter, Syrcas
The Scottish-Ghanaian artist placed black women at the centre of the frame, metaphorically and literally. This exhibition of her series Syrcas shows her use of photomontage to disrupt European images by covering them with traditional African objects and artworks
