Category: Interview
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Heather Phillipson – interview: ‘I wanted to respond to the loaded political position of Trafalgar Square’
With her sculpture THE END finally installed in Trafalgar Square, after a delay due to Covid-19, and the first full monograph of her work now out, Phillipson talks about the pandemic, subversion, her multimedia practice and endings and beginnings
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Kate Mieczkowska – interview: ‘I have always loved being in front of a big painting. It’s like a duvet, it wraps around you, and you’re lost in it’
The artist talks about the development of her art practice and her curatorial debut, Goddess Now
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Natacha Nisic – interview: ‘We needed a place for free expression, a visibility, a female presence’
The French artist and film-maker Natacha Nisic talks about The Crown Letter, the international participatory art project she launched in April, which offers a digital space for female artists from around the world
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Pat Steir – interview: ‘I want the paint to make the painting, to make a picture of itself – it’s process, gravity and chance’
She discusses a new, candid documentary of her life, and talks about her art practice and the influence of John Cage, Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, and about feminism, politics and civil rights
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Aliza Nisenbaum – interview: ‘I’ve found Zoom surprisingly intimate. It’s not the same as face-to-face but you can get very close to a person’
Nisenbaum is preparing for two exhibitions this year, one at Anton Kern Gallery in New York and one at Tate Liverpool. She was meant to be in the UK now, painting for the Liverpool show. She explains how she has…
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Sam Lucas – interview: ‘I do not make pretty things: they are conversation pieces exploring uncertainty and vulnerability’
The artist talks about clay’s therapeutic and expressive qualities, and how her work helps her to explore and articulate feelings of social awkwardness and displacement
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Nalini Malani – interview: ‘The future is female. There is no other way’
Malani won the Joan Miró Prize last year and the resulting exhibition, You Don’t Hear Me, is now on in Barcelona. She has also just been awarded the first National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship. She explains why telling and retelling stories,…
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Toby Deveson – interview: ‘There is definitely a sense of seeking perfection, seeking that world, that place to the west of the sun’
The photographer talks about his love of landscapes, his instinctive composition, and that elusive somewhere you can never reach
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Andrew Litten – interview: ‘I like the feeling that my work is emotionally varied and full of raw nerves’
The artist talks about his concern with expressing human vulnerability and encouraging empathy and connection
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Mami Kataoka – interview: ‘We need to look at long-term museum management because this situation will linger’
The director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo explains how it has used its online presence and social media during the Covid-19 pandemic, and considers how this will shape the future of exhibitions and the funding of museums
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