Category: Interview

  • Dashiell Manley interview: ‘I approach most projects as if making a film’

    Los Angeles-based artist Dashiell Manley talks about The Great Train Robbery, explains why he sees himself mainly as a film-maker, and reveals how he forms his ideas and the processes involved in his complex, layered and thoughtful works

  • Folkestone Triennial 2014

    For the third edition of this bustling summer exhibition, curator Lewis Biggs has invited a selection of internationally renowned and local artists to produce 21 new artworks in response to specific sites across the town

  • rootoftwo: interview

    The work of rootoftwo also responds to anxiety, but by measuring social media and people’s response to, and production of, fear on the internet. Five Whithervanes, at locations across town, spin and light up in different colours, according to the…

  • Emma Hart: interview

    Emma Hart’s work is full of anxiety. Located in an empty domestic space on Tontine Street, Folkestone, it fills the rooms with outlines of glasses, remnants of a party, and video screens that scream out, both in desolation and invitation.…

  • Pablo Bronstein: interview

    Pablo Bronstein, whose Sketches for Regency Living graced the walls of the ICA in London this summer, has brought to life a sculpture based on the ideas of 18th-century architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Bronstein’s creation is a grey beach hut, next…

  • Jyll Bradley: interview

    Jyll Bradley, a native of Folkestone, has returned to the town to create a wonderful homage to the Kentish hop gardens with which she grew up. Her work invites viewers to walk among the strings and green Plexiglas and neon…

  • Alex Hartley: interview

    Fresh from his incredible journey with Nowhereisland, Alex Hartley speaks to us from his lookout atop the Grand Burstin Hotel. With a vigil being held for the duration of the Folkestone Triennial, we were lucky enough to experience the view…

  • Lewis Biggs: interview

    Lewis Biggs is this year’s curator of the Folkestone Triennial, invited to join after 11 years as chief executive and artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial. He was also director of Tate Liverpool from 1990-2000. Biggs speaks to us about…

  • Alastair Upton: interview

    Alastair Upton is chief executive of The Creative Foundation, an independent visionary arts charity seeking to rejuvenate Folkestone through creative activity. As well as restoring more than 90 buildings in the Creative Quarter and building the Quarterhouse arts venue, they…

  • Stephen Farthing: interview

    Stephen Farthing, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Drawing, talks to Janet McKenzie about his obsession with finding an adequate definition of drawing – and how digital imaging is changing the way it is taught today