Category: Interview
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Chechu Álava – interview: ‘We painters are like relay runners who pass the baton to each other to continue the race’
Álava explains how her passion for art history and her interest in gender issues blend together in her work, how she honours the memory of previously forgotten women by presenting them with love and, by doing so, hopes to provide…
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Cauleen Smith – interview: ‘I don’t know if optimism is needed so much as vigilance’
The artist on what it was like to have her lockdown Instagram posts on Covid shown on the vast screens at Piccadilly Circus, having her film about New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina shown in Edinburgh, and her…
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Donna Huddleston – video interview: ‘I was thinking of all the works being a double for myself’
Huddleston talks about her beguiling new works on paper, for which she draws on her background in theatre to create figures that she sees as performing within the composition
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Katya Kvasova – interview: ‘People say that whatever someone paints or draws is always a self-portrait. That’s true’
The artist talks about her interest in hands, her artistic training, and her method of layering graphite powder and translucent colour on to the canvas, allowing the light to eat the image
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Cristina Iglesias – video interview: ‘I always felt I wanted to create places, places to be’
The Spanish artist discusses her fascination with geology and botany, how public sculpture assists in the creation of place, and the importance of remaining alive to nature in urban design
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Coral Woodbury – interview: “The work I’m doing is approaching death, making peace with death’
Woodbury talks about her solo show at HackelBury Fine Art and what led her to use old books to redraw the history of art and make the invisible visible
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones – interview: ‘I want to show composure and a confidence. I don’t want these figures to feel they have anything to prove’
Adeniyi-Jones talks about his new paintings in That Which Binds Us, his first solo show at White Cube Bermondsey
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Joy Labinjo – interview: ‘When people speak of multicultural London, it’s something you can really see in Brixton’
For her first public commission at Brixton underground station, the young London-based artist reflects on the importance of the hair salon in her own life, as well as within black British female culture more widely
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Christiane Baumgartner – interview: ‘A good piece of work should not bore you; each time you look at it, there should be something else to discover’
Baumgartner talks about being brought up in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall and how that has shaped her work, why she has moved from depicting urban life to focusing on nature, and discusses her new body…
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John Abell – interview: ‘I see my work as a type of devotional art’
The artist talks about Welsh mythology, poets and nationalism, moving between linocut and painting, and his latest work at the Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh
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