Category: Interview
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Billie Zangewa – interview: ‘I realised that I had chosen to embody the most disempowered human form’
Johannesburg-based Billie Zangewa, whose work is currently on show at Lehmann Maupin in New York, talks about her collages of domestic life, which advocate for self-preservation and the demystification of black women
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Christina Quarles – interview: ‘These works are holding onto that slow-fast contrast of a physically still world and this mental chaos’
Created during lockdown, against a backdrop of rising deaths from Covid, the police killing of George Floyd and raging fires across California, the nine new paintings in this show at Pilar Corrias are haunted by melancholy. Quarles spoke to Studio…
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Huma Bhabha – interview: ‘The more complicated and layered the work is, the better for me’
The artist explains how working for a taxidermist helped her with sculpture, why she is fond of materials that are basically refuse, and the nerdy humour that she hides in her work
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Krištof Kintera – interview: ‘Humour helps us to survive’
Unable to install The End of Fun! at Ikon in Birmingham because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, Kintera spoke to Studio International via Zoom from his studio in the Czech Republic
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Alexandre da Cunha – interview: ‘All my work is about combining things and making them have a conversation, or sometimes an argument’
The artist discusses his use of found objects, the place of autobiography in his work, his fascination with concrete and the challenges he faced while developing his installation for the Northern line extension in Battersea, south London
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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum – interview: ‘I needed to put my own body on the line if I was going to be asking a figure to carry a story or particular politics’
Through multilayered works that merge vibrant female figures with fantastical landscapes, the South African artist, who currently has a solo show at Goodman Gallery, London, is forging more complex and nuanced portrayals of black women
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Craig Gough – interview: ‘Improvisation in painting is a lot like jazz’
Now in his 80s, Gough continues to paint his vast abstract canvases. He talks about his long career and, in particular, the influence John Walker had on him
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Jacqueline Poncelet – interview: ‘Uncertainty is all right; it gives us an opportunity to look again and think again’
A major UK survey exhibition of her work reveals the restless creativity and curiosity of this talented, multimedia artist. She talks about her love of landscape and her revolutionary approach to pattern
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Emma Critchley – interview: ‘Being underwater where everything completely shifts interested me’
She has worked with dancers in the world’s deepest swimming pool, with scientists investigating glacial retreats and others investigating the effect of noise pollution on the oceans’ inhabitants. She explains how her work responds to environmental crises
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Alberta Whittle – interview: ‘No one can find Barbados on a map, whereas everyone can find the UK. That level of inattention galvanises so much of my work ’
The artist talks about the erasure of black people in everyday society, and how this informs and motivates her to challenge herself, and her audience, with her filmic and performative installations
