Category: Interview
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Tiffanie Delune – interview: ‘I want people to feel like they’re walking into a complete universe’
The artist talks about her time on a residency in Ghana, culminating in her current solo show there, and how this, along with everything from existential fears to mundane choices of pre-bedtime TV programmes, has fed into her increasingly abstract…
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Mike Parr – interview: ‘I was a performance artist with one arm. The problem of visibility, the visual, was loaded completely differently’
One of Australia’s most influential artists, Parr talks about his extreme performance art, how the death of his brother has affected his work, and why Joseph Beuys’s drawings have been a constant touchstone
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Duke Riley – interview: ‘As an artist, you’re trying to push boundaries and push further into the unknown’
Riley likes his art to provoke, even if it gets him arrested. He talks about training pigeons to smuggle cigars from Cuba, whether or not he was involved in putting bedbugs in a Trump hotel, and his exhibition at Brooklyn…
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Adelaide Cioni – interview: ‘My work is about the origins of drawing and that visual or aesthetic relation we have to objects’
The artist talks about her interest in patterns, and how these relate to something deep inside us, a universal alphabet, which evades meaning
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Péju Alatise – interview: ‘My relationship with Nigeria is like a battered wife … Glasgow is a new relationship’
Having recently moved to the UK from Nigeria, Péju Alatise talks about growing up in Lagos, her campaigning art and its shifting style, and plans for her new Glasgow studio
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Shanti Panchal – interview: ‘It’s a meditative process, a layering of colour, sometimes 10 or 15 layers’
The artist discusses the enduring power of painting, the evolution of his watercolour technique, the influence of his childhood landscape on palette and subject, and the importance of persistence
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Marcelle Hanselaar – interview: ‘To do nothing, to not at least take the responsibility of bearing witness, to show no empathy, would be to lose part of our humanity’
The artist, 20 of whose works are now on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum, talks about the power struggles in her work and how being one step removed enables creatives to produce an empathetic, imaginative and impactful response to global…
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Wu Tsang – interview: ‘I’m drawn to stories that have messy politics’
Tsang trains a postcolonial lens on Herman Melville’s 19th-century novel Moby-Dick for her immersive video installation Of Whales and beguiling silent film MOBY DICK; or, The Whale. She talks about the works, staged by TBA21, now on show at Museo…
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Ingela Ihrman – interview: ‘I need to find my own reasons to do things, to find my bruises and push them’
The Swedish artist’s subject matter includes invasive weeds, intestinal flora and obese chicks that live in dark caves. She tells us about her works now on show at Gasworks London and the Eden Project
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Xiyao Wang: A Carnival in the Forest
This colourful lyrical abstraction sweeps the viewer up in its kaleidoscopic eddies and perpetual vicissitude
