Author: jaywp
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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…
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The art behind the activist: Adrian Locke talks about Ai Weiwei
A rebel, an iconoclast and a playful symbolist – Ai Weiwei is all these things, but surely history will remember him as one of China’s most influential dissident artists. Curator Adrian Locke talks about Ai’s latest exhibition at the Royal…
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Zakkir Hussain and Rakhi Peswani
Two solo exhibitions featuring alumni from India’s premier art institute in Baroda throw up interesting questions about violence, self and the processes of survival
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Liberties
This exhibition of contemporary artworks by more than 20 women artists reflects the changes in art practice in the 40 years since the Sex Discrimination Act was introduced in the UK
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The Israel National Museum
After 17 years of statehood Israel at last boasts a national museum. When one compares nearby countries, Greece for instance, where there are no national museums devoted to European painting, let alone modern art, it is no mean achievement. In…
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Dineo Seshee Bopape: slow -co- ruption
For the artist’s first UK solo exhibition, she combines experimental video works and sculptural installations of found objects in order to explore sociopolitical notions of narration, memory and representation
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Jackson Pollock’s Mural: Energy Made Visible
Mural, Pollock’s largest-ever painting, has been credited with breaking the ice for abstract expressionism. This exhibition explores the context in which it was produced and its effect on the contemporary art world
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Judy Chicago: ‘I’ll leave it to others to change the world’
The artist talks about her career trajectory, the continuing need for feminist art, and the way in which she hopes to spend her remaining years
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Jonas Mekas: ‘I have a need to film small, almost invisible daily moments’
The legendary independent film-maker talks about avant garde, utopia, his latest projects, the importance of history and improvisation, and why he rarely films anything outside his close circle of friends
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Wilmer Wilson IV: ‘Moving between mediums is my way of remaining nimble’
The artist explains some of his performances, his interest in intervening in monuments in public spaces, why he uses detritus from the streets, and how he uses his body to push back against social and cultural control
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Jennifer Campbell and Chloë Manasseh: ‘We’re both interested in the temporal state of the landscape’
The artists talk about how they explore the conflicting psychological and physical states of being ‘grounded’, Manasseh through the diverse landscapes of the desert, and Campbell through the metropolis
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Hank Willis Thomas: ‘Ideas crop up out of thin air, like bubbles, and I’m just trying to trap them’
The artist talks about grabbing people’s attention to make them think about things they normally wouldn’t think about, recapturing or re-experiencing historical moments, and how he still has the mind of a photographer, even if that’s not where he always…
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Tadeusz Kantor: Inbetween Structures
As two exhibitions celebrate the centenary of the birth of Polish artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor, Richard Demarco, who first brought him to Britain and has ensured his legacy continues, talks about his work
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Roman Signer: Installations
From kayaks filled with scotch to empty boots on a ladder, Signer has a lightness of touch and mischief that almost tips into menace. His art is lighthearted, but it is also thought-provoking and atmospheric while appearing almost throwaway
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Anna Dumitriu: ‘Bacteria are living organisms that you can work with – almost in a painterly kind of way’
Not many artists would want to work with bacteria, smelly faecal transplants or anthrax, but Dumitriu is at the crossover between science and art, as happy in a microbiology lab as she is in a studio. Here, she talks about…
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Construction Industry: Contemporary Assemblage, Construction and Relief
This group exhibition makes a strong case that assemblage – as an art form – is still influential and prevalent among today’s contemporary artists
