Category: Interview
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Matt Jukes – interview: ‘You need to dream big, so you can shoot for the stars, and maybe reach the moon’
Matt Jukes talks about the pandemic, the effect of lockdown on our mental health, and his immersive, digital artwork Feelscape, which creates an abstract landscape from the emotions of a person’s memory of an event
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Mohamed Bourouissa – interview: ‘I see art as a playground’
Ahead of Mohamed Bourouissa’s survey exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, the Paris-based artist discusses his routes to art, his creative techniques and the perils of working locally
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Valerie Hird: What Did Happen to Alice; My Avatar
Hird’s exhibition includes her award-winning animated short film along with interactive stage sets and multimedia paintings
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Philip Hughes – interview: ‘Drawing captures the memory of a place like a diary’
Philip Hughes talks about his practice and what informed his new book, Painting the Ancient Land of Australia, which includes work he has created over the past 50 years
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Anne Hardy – interview: ‘I’m interested in residues, leftovers, stranded things, as carriers of potential’
Hardy talks about her new series of photograms, now online at Maureen Paley’s Studio M, how lockdown has affected her work – and her forthcoming residency in the Texan desert
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Claire Ashley – interview: ‘I’m not an artist who is scared about the word entertainment’
Ashley makes vast colourful, oddball inflatables. She talks about giving life to these characters, taking up space, and allowing humour and entertainment as access points to her art
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Peter Kennard – interview: ‘Montage is about allowing people to think critically’
Ahead of a new exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, the celebrated political artist talks of photomontage, protest, art schools and image-making in an age of mass reproduction
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Harold Offeh – interview: ‘I am always asking: who is not part of the conversation? That is who you need to be addressing’
Offeh discusses boredom, curiosity and 1980s pop culture, the influence of punk and hip-hop, the joy of participatory creativity, social dance as a form of healing and artist-designed playgrounds
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Lana Locke – interview: ‘I look more at the racial connotations of colour and whiteness in relation to the laundry rather than dirt itself’
Locke talks about domesticity in life and art, colonialism and climate change –and how these concerns overlap in her new film
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Eleanor May Watson – interview: ‘Home is a sanctuary, but also a really complicated space for most people’
Eleanor May Watson talks about the weight of history, the evolving nature of her work and the complexities of the domestic space
