Category: Interview
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Ed Fornieles interview: ‘If you want access to the site, it’s a trade of your photos or data’
For his show at the Chisenhale Gallery, Ed Fornieles has created a suburban Los Angeles television set with a twist. Titled Modern Family, the exhibition explores how contemporary identities are shaped by our online existences
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Aleah Chapin: interview
American artist Aleah Chapin has had huge success early in her career. On graduating from the New York Academy of Art she was made a postgraduate fellow and went on to become one of the youngest artists to win the…
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Glenn Ligon: interview
Glenn Ligon, who was born in 1960, is famed for his thought-provoking works, which combine text, silkscreen painting, neon and video, and explore themes of identity, racism, sexuality and civil rights. Ligon spoke to Studio International before the opening of…
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Zarouhie Abdalian interview: ‘It’s important for work to be challenging and perhaps even difficult’
A Will Brown: Zarouhie, can you give a brief summary of what you are working on and what shows you have coming up? ZarouhieAbdalian: At the moment, I’m focusing on a couple of projects: next up is a site-responsive outdoor…
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Richard Demarco interview: ‘The art world, like the Edinburgh festival itself, is in danger of being identified with the world of entertainment and leisure’
Richard Demarco has organised exhibitions and theatre events for the Edinburgh festival since 1963. He talks about his memories of the very first festival in 1947, bringing Joseph Beuys to Scotland, his own work as an artist and the Demarco…
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GW Bot interview: ‘Living and working in Australia has meant coming to terms with the country in one’s own way’
The signs and symbols that have developed in Bot’s work, which she calls “glyphs”, form a calligraphic language, from which she creates a visual poetry. Her work was included in the Royal Academy’s exhibition Australia in 2013.
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DALeast interview: ‘I’m constantly thinking about creating something more than the eye can see’
The Laten Photon Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York 4 September – 4 October 2014
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Nanda Vigo: interview
A pioneer in modern Italian art, Nanda Vigo has continually skirted the confines of design, architecture and installation to compelling effect, in her own practice, as well as in her collaborations with other radical figures such as Lucio Fontana and…
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Anne Graham interview: ‘The ability to see things as if for the first time is for me the essential quality necessary to make art’
Anne Graham William Wright Artist Projects, Sydney 28 August – 13 September 2014
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Deb Covell interview: ‘I want to show how far painting can be pushed’
Deb Covell (b1966) is a painter who seeks to celebrate the material qualities of paint. Rejecting pictorial imagery, she also eschews the traditional canvas support, producing paintings that hang from walls like drapes or lie folded and crumpled on the…
