Category: Interview
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Trulee Hall – interview: ‘When I say “whore”, I wouldn’t say that it’s a bad word’
Trulee Hall talks about her multimedia practice, her views on sex and voyeurism, and how she hopes her giant, golden corn-on-the-cobs and dancing, milk-squirting boobs will offer visitors a new experience
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Monica von Schmalensee – interview: ‘Architecture is an instrument for creating a better quality of life’
Von Schmalensee, former CEO and now partner of White Arkitekter, has advised the Swedish government and London’s mayor. She talks here about her passion for sustainability in cities and the effect the pandemic may have
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Susie MacMurray – interview: ‘A feather is never just a feather, and a fishhook is never just a fishhook’
Susie MacMurray talks about how she uses art to raise questions rather than make statements, and about her love of magic, alchemy and fairytales
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Emily Jacir – interview: ‘I wanted the locals to show me what was important for them, what they thought I should see, what they wanted to talk about’
The artist talks about her stone sculpture, Pietrapertosa, created as part of the Gardentopia project for Matera 2019, and currently on show at the Fondazione Merz in Turin
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Eleanor Bartlett – interview: ‘When you see a great lump of tar, it’s like looking at a fundamental building block of the universe’
Eleanor Bartlett talks about why she favours working with bitumen, metal paint and wax and why colour is dangerous
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Ali Kazim – interview: ‘When I picked up a pottery shard and it had some imprint of the potter, it was a sort of time travelling key for me’
The artist talks about looking to ancient civilisations for inspiration, why he doesn’t like working with a sitter in his studio, and how his practice changed during lockdown
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Arik Levy and Zoé Ouvrier – interview: ‘We definitely influence each other in many ways – some we know about and many we don’t’
Ahead of their first joint exhibition, Beyond Nature, the artists talk about their relationship to nature, materiality, process and one another
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Ann Veronica Janssens — interview: ‘I try to make visible the invisible, to work with the limits’
The Belgian artist discusses her perception-bending work, currently on display at the South London Gallery
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Tim Clark – interview: ‘This set of Hokusai’s drawings is a really important piece of the jigsaw’
The British Museum has just bought 103 newly rediscovered drawings by Hokusai. Tim Clark, the museum’s leading expert on the Japanese artist, talks about studying the pictures and their connections during lockdown, making them available online and preparing for a…
