Category: Interview
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Andrew Black – interview: ‘The film-making process for me is a research process first … the film is what it forms into when it’s ready’
The artist discusses his film documenting the social and economic history of the Washburn Valley in the Yorkshire Dales, and how mining and, more recently US intelligence gathering, have affected the communities that live here
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Scott Covert – interview: ‘For me, each brushstroke is a lifetime’
In a long overdue first European exhibition, at Studio Voltaire, London, the American artist recounts his theatrical beginnings, a singular plein-air practice and why we should view his canvases as aquariums
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Brian Vincent and Heather Spore – interview: ‘Edward Brezinski really is the archetype of what it means to be a struggling artist’
On the occasion of their first feature documentary, the film-makers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore discuss the allure of New York’s East Village demi-monde, as observed in Make Me Famous, their vivid and melancholy portrait of the forgotten artist Edward…
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Leslie Jones – interview: ‘I wanted to recontextualise the material, not to remarginalise it, by looking at it again “in its moment””
Jones, the curator behind the Los Angeles Museum of Art’s much-anticipated exhibition of early works from the computer age, explains her vision for the project
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Rebecca Fortnum – interview: ‘I’m trying to bring these women back to life by painting them in flesh-like tones’
As Fortnum was at the Henry Moore Institute, installing her exhibition of paintings and drawings of sculptures of women connected to Rodin, she spoke candidly about her belief that the sculptor received a ‘bad press’ and about the slippage between…
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Ceyda Oskay – interview: ‘I often dislocate and repackage, reworking and unravelling things in new locations’
Oskay talks about her residency at Cork Printmakers in Ireland as part of a project that supports artists who are asylum seekers or refugees, and her work around the theme of migration
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Kyriaki Goni – interview: ‘For me, technology is an existential discussion’
The Greek artist discusses the interplay of technology with humans and nature that underpins her work, the influence of philosophy, botany and geology, and how she weaves these together with analogue and digital art to create powerful multimedia installations
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David Mach – interview: ‘I tried to make myself known as an ideas monger’
Before his show Heavy Metal, now on at Pangolin London, we spoke to Mach about what fuels his inclination to work at scale and the importance of necessary extravagance when making art with the stuff of everyday life, from matches…
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Jenkin van Zyl – interview: ‘The world has ended many times over’
The artist and film-maker guides us through his fantastical world of dancing rats, pneumatic tubes, dance marathons and inflatable hellmouths
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Osman Yousefzada – interview: ‘Opening doors for other people is key to what I do’
He has dressed Beyoncé, wrapped Selfridges in Birmingham in a giant canvas, had a solo show at the V&A and written a memoir about his childhood as the son of immigrant parents. Here, he discusses his multidisciplinary approach to work…
