Category: Interview
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Jean David Nkot – interview: ‘I want to show that even if every day is hard, it is worth being alive’
The artist talks about the development of his practice, and how he uses three distinct layers to add levels of meaning and interpretation to his human and territorial portraits
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Charlotte Keates – interview: ‘I want my paintings to feel more like dreamscapes, that sense of deja-vu’
The artist talks about her series of paintings in the group show Just What Is It …?, at Cristea Roberts Gallery, and how they draw on memories engaging all five senses
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Bring Into Being
Mariam Zulfiqar, the curator of an exhibition of art installations at Chiswick House, says it marks a new chapter for the English Heritage site
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Clare Woods – interview: ‘Fragility and vulnerability have always been with me in my work’
Woods talks about her new prints and collages, now on show at Cristea Roberts gallery in London, their relationship to her paintings, and finding a silver lining in the pandemic
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Shara Hughes – interview: ‘I wanted the works to feel like figures you would visit at church, something divine’
The American artist Shara Hughes talks about the new paintings in her exhibition at the Garden Museum in London and the novelty of exhibiting in a church
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Rafael Pérez Evans – interview: ‘Food contains a lot of emotion’
The artist talks about growing up in a farming community in rural Spain, queer and rural shame, and the importance of reuniting living, thinking and making through a practice that disrupts
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Idris Khan – interview: ‘There was a struggle making these works’
The British artist talks about his new works at Victoria Miro, freaking out in lockdown and encapsulating a year in colour
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Clare Patey – interview: ‘People don’t take humour seriously enough’
Clare Patey talks about 25 years of creating and producing powerful, participatory, public artworks on climate change, plastic waste and loss of empathy
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Jadé Fadojutimi – interview: ‘I bathe in the conversations between colour, texture, line, form, composition, rhythm, marks and disturbances’
Jadé Fadojutimi talks about how lockdown enriched her practice, her obsession with Japan, her Liverpool Biennial exhibition – and why she wants her studio to feel like her bedroom
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Armin Linke – interview: ‘We have to look at different categories of photography and the artistic practice is re-framing them’
The film-maker and photographer discusses recording the evolution of human-environment relations, the role of technology on how we see, and his latest film, exploring the elaborate infrastructure of Lisbon’s aquarium, a ‘United Nations of fishes’
