Author: jaywp
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Saba Qizilbash: ‘I always attempt to speak from personal eye level’
The Pakistani-born artist says much of her works have been in response to stages in her personal life, from documenting the death of her mother, to painting children in beautified battlefields, to looking at how her clothes could tell a…
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Basim Magdy: interview
Basim Magdy reveals a world of colour in his films and photographs. The critically acclaimed Egyptian artist uses a poetic language of image, text and sound in his narratives of collective memory and forgetfulness. Science, futurology and the natural world…
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Lynn Hershman Leeson: ‘I’ve always been interested in the exchange between reality and virtual reality’
The US artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, known for her performance art and film-making, talks about her latest show, Civic Radar, making films with Tilda Swinton, and her fears about bio-engineering
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Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar
A dedicated feminist who came of age in the tumult of the 1960s, Lynn Hershman Leeson was born in 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio, and is now based in New York and San Francisco. She is an influential new media and…
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Trish Wylie interview: ‘Wylie provides a hotline to the gods of the silver screen’
Studio International has come to north west London to visit the painter Trish Wylie in her studio.
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Serge Poliakoff: Silent Paintings
Through his devoted exploration of abstraction, Russian modernist Serge Poliakoff not only established himself as one of the most accomplished painters of his generation, but also as a master of his own style
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Thomas Allen: ‘I want my cave to offer an escape’
Thomas Allen talks about his background in sociology, how his latest work relies on the scribbles of perfect strangers – and why termites are so fascinating
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Gail Pickering: ‘I was interested in the histories of community video production’
The London-based artist Gail Pickering talks about her recent major exhibition at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, which combined visual art, installations, videos, screenings and performances, and the ever-changing, ever-static, ever-replicating nature of images
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Valerie Hird – interview: ‘Drawings are documents of honest and wonderfully human communication’
US artist Valerie Hird studied archaeological illustration and then painting before becoming a compulsive traveller. Her work, she says, is deeply rooted in multiple cultures, the nomadic icons she uses filtered through her own cultural roots to create a transcultural…
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William S Burroughs: Can you all hear me?
The October Gallery’s exhibition explores the legacy of novelist and artist William S Burroughs, and shows work by those he influenced, including Brion Gysin, Liliane Lijn, Genesis P-Orridge
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Jessica Stockholder: ‘Art changes, taking account of the present moment’
Jessica Stockholder talks about her work, which combines painting, sculpture, installation and language in a unique creation that calls for a close personal encounter with the viewer
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Nina Lola Bachhuber: ‘The creative process is like a virus in my brain’
The Munich-born artist’s delicate drawings depict invented characters that are then given form in sculptures. She explains her methods and her choice of materials and says a humorous air of surrealism leavens a wild energy in her works
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Refiguring the 50s
The exhibition at Ben Uri brings together five postwar artists, Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and LS Lowry, all of whom shared a common interest in working people and the underlying human condition
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Samara Scott: Harvest
Using edible and chemical substances from hair gel to toothpaste to avocado skins and potatoes, Samara Scott explores the processes of human consumption and waste through the creation of a series of dense landscapes lit by a warm, coloured light
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Concentric circles: Wojciech Fangor and Peter Sedgely
First published in Studio International, Vol 171 No 878, June 1966
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A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution
From the “votes for women” campaigns of the early 20th century to anti-apartheid protests in the 1960s and more recent anti-war movements, this exhibition of posters provides a fascinating insight into a modern history of dissent and political change
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Wojciech Fangor: Colour-Light-Space
In the 1950s and 60s, Polish-born Wojciech Fangor (b1928) was an artistic force to be reckoned with. Having turned to poster art as an escape from the social realism that dominated his homeland at that time, he became fascinated with…
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Sam Belinfante: ‘For galleries, sound is still a terrifying prospect’
Sam Belinfante talks about the role of listening in the visual arts and the challenges he faced in curating this engaging and impressive show, which features some of the key figures in aural art today
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Dan Coombs: ‘Art is grounded in reaching for the real’
The artist talks about how he hoped his recent exhibition, Suspicion, would answer his 20-year quest to find out what narrative in painting is, his regret at the demise of life drawing, and teaching at a new private art school
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Maggi Hambling: ‘Some paintings you’ve just got to cut up. There’s enough bad art in the world’
Maggi Hambling talks about the sea, life, death and love in her work, how, despite being nearly 70, she’s still learning about painting, and why sometimes a painting has to be killed off
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Caragh Thuring
In her largest exhibition to date, British artist Caragh Thuring presents a diverse series of abstract paintings that elicit a multitude of questions, but refuse to provide answers
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Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection
This exhibition, which revolves around Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti, offers works of an intimacy, scale and aesthetic that is utterly personal while also of museum calibre. The Picassos alone are worth the trip
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Nova at Art Basel Miami Beach
The Nova section of Art Basel Miami Beach gave artists a chance to show their latest works, from drawing, painting and sculpture to installation and video, and included work from last year’s Turner-prize winner Laure Prouvost
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Jim Campbell: Indirect Imaging
American artist Jim Campbell uses LED technology for his light installations in this stunning exploration of time, light and space at Dundee Contemporary Arts
