Category: Interview

  • Janet Cardiff’s Sound Sculpture

    The Forty Part Motet, a sound installation by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, is not so much a sight to see – despite the magnificence of its current setting – as it is a space to experience

  • Professor Mechal Sobel discusses her research on Bill Traylor

    Mechal Sobel is one of the scholars who has reassessed Traylor’s drawings in light of the social and cultural conditions of the post-civil war south. Sobel is professor emeritus of history at the University of Haifa, Israel, and author of…

  • Bedwyr Williams: interview

    Living in a small village in north Wales, Bedwyr Williams is the first to confess that most people there, including his partner, think he is a little strange. And indeed, there is no straight talking with this polymath-artist-come-standup comedian whose…

  • Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist

    Miguel Benavides talks to Ibrahim El-Salahi about his Sudanese heritage, his time in prison on unfounded suspicion of anti-government activities, politics, his career, having sympathy for the underdog, and what makes good art.

  • Patrick Hughes: interview

    Hughes’ new exhibition at Flowers, Cork Street, includes nine new paintings employing his unique technique of reverspective.

  • Liane Lang: interview

    Liane Lang’s works combine a mixture of photography and grotesquely lifelike silicon and rubber sculpture. Having recently undertaken a residency at the Memento Sculpture Park in Budapest, where she found herself amidst the supersized discarded sculptures of heroes from the…

  • Taking a transnational picture: an interview with Maryam Najd

    The meeting with Maryam Najd was an encounter of cultures. She, a fascinating artist who left her homeland in Iran and went to Belgium to study, and myself, a Brazilian who has been educated and lives in England. To complete…

  • Understanding the Expansion of Universe. An interview with Ernesto Neto

    Internationally acclaimed for creating immersive installations with his ambient sculptures, the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto completely transformed the upper floor of the Hayward Gallery in London