Category: Interview

  • Cecilia Vicuña – interview

    Now in her 70s, and with a show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Cecilia Vicuña’s activist light is undimmed: she continues to celebrate the fragility and connectivity of plants, animals and people. She shares the magic…

  • Artes Mundi 11 Prize and Exhibition

    Against a background of divisive global politics and hysteria around migration, the six artists shortlisted for the 2025 Artes Mundi prize focus on the losses endured by displaced peoples, and the disempowerment arising from imposed colonial narratives. We review this…

  • Jumana Emil Abboud – interview

    ‘We can be anything we want to be through the stories we can make and unmake’

  • Anawana Haloba – interview

    ‘With everything that’s going on in the world, we talk about things, but we really don’t listen’

  • Rhiannon Hiles, chief executive, Beamish Museum – interview

    Winner of the world’s largest museum prize, the £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year, Beamish, an open-air social history museum in north-east England, was described as ‘a joyous, immersive and unique place’. Rhiannon Hiles tells us all about it

  • Holly Stevenson – interview

    Following in the female surrealist tradition, Holly Stevenson makes cathectic objects from clay, which distort and intrigue

  • Andrew Kinghorn interview

    Sculptor Andrew Kinghorn talks about architecture, colonialism, how his extensive travels through Asia and living in Australia changed his work – and how the love of his life became his muse

  • Amalia Pica interview

    The Argentinian-born artist explains how chairs, daisy chains and bunting feed into her exploration of early years education, history, rituals, community and conflict resolution

  • Renee So interview

    As her new show, Commodities – Sculpture and Ceramics, opens at Compton Verney, Renee So takes us on a guided tour, and explains how the museum’s collection of Chinese artefacts led her to think more about exploitation and colonisation, the…

  • John Walker – interview: ‘I wept uncontrollably in front of Goya’s Black paintings’

    Following the publication earlier this year of a Thames & Hudson monograph on his art, John Walker talks about how the landscape of Maine suits his work, his admiration for Brâncuși and why, if the world were on fire, he…