Category: Interview

  • Liz Larner – interview

    On the event of her first UK institutional show at Camden Art Centre, the American sculptor discusses plastics, ceramics and the legend of Lilith

  • Virginia Verran – interview

    Verran paints large atmospheric spaces filled with small, often cryptic, graphic details. She explains why she doesn’t see herself as an abstract artist, but desires to keep the viewer on their toes – or even on ‘metaphorical barbed wire’

  • Francisca Aninat – interview

    The Chilean artist talks about listening, stitching and her latest show, which combines photographs and works with thread

  • Pedro Cabrita Reis – interview

    The internationally acclaimed artist talks about his current show in Venice, XIV Steps, a cycle of 14 paintings inspired by the Stations of the Cross and why, despite not being religious, he was moved to paint them

  • John Gibbons – interview

    In his Basildon studio, sculptor John Gibbons talks about light, the Big Bang, the importance of openness and modelling Winston Churchill’s hands

  • Eva Rothschild – interview

    The artist talks about the obtuse nature of sculpture, the value of a prolonged gaze, masculinity as a social and spatial concern, and the difference between material illusion and confusion

  • Victoria Pomery, chief executive, The Box, Plymouth – interview

    Plymouth’s The Box has been named 2026 Museum of the Year by the Art Fund. Pomery talks about what it means to win the UK’s most prestigious museum prize

  • Isabel Nolan – interview

    The artist talks about representing Ireland at this year’s Venice Biennale, her first major UK survey show in London, and being inspired by medieval printers, Greek philosophers, TV psychopaths and the bony knees and feet of ancient poets and priests

  • Emily Kraus – interview

    Kraus talks about the purpose-built painting scaffold she uses and the challenges of working within it, the difference between working at large and small scale and the mistake of assuming analogue and digital are binary

  • Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir – interview

    The artist representing Iceland at this year’s Venice Biennale with her enchanting Pocket Universe talks about her practice – what she calls a form of ‘spiritual fluxus’ in which different worlds and disciplines intermingle – and explains why she is…