Category: Interview
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Stefan Brüggemann – interview: ‘The language in the work adapts to the consciousness of the public’
The artist explains why he has painted a building in Folkestone in gold leaf and scrawled OK across it and talks about his forthcoming show of gold paintings done during lockdown, a period that spurred him on to great creativity
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Esther Teichmann: ‘My work explores our relationship to the maternal, thinking about the mother as first lover’
The artist talks about the inspiration of watery places, lockdown at her parents’ home and how motherhood has changed her as an artist
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David Blandy – interview: ‘The online world can be a space for transformation, a place for better understanding our offline existence’
Blandy talks about his new films, produced during lockdown and made to be viewed at home, his use of video games to produce art, and how his works, which deal with cultural appropriation, postcolonial legacies and racism, have turned out…
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Yuko Hasegawa – interview: ‘We built Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition without the artist’
The artistic director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo was preparing a solo exhibition of Eliasson’s work when the museum shut because of Covid-19. She explains how a printed catalogue and an online talk saved the day
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Ann Thomson – interview: ‘Art is a means of renewing culture’
Now in her late-80s, the Australian artist discusses how her love of Aboriginal art was sparked as a child, being influenced by the Scottish-born artist Ian Fairweather along with American, French and Chinese art, and being compared to Cy Twombly
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Hetain Patel – interview: ‘What does it do growing up to see that the only heroic version of masculinity I can be is white’
Known for performance art that mixes superheroes such as Spider-Man with the Gujarati traditions of his family, Patel explains why Eddie Murphy and The Simpsons influence him more than the arts and why he struggles to be seen as a…
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Clae Eastgate – interview: ‘I want my portraiture to be that bridge, that in-between being, between a genre painting and a traditional portrait of someone’s face’
The artist talks about her project Painting the Poets, comprising a growing collection of portraits of female poets, which she hopes to exhibit to provide a platform for, and raise awareness of, the importance of women’s voices
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Matthew Burrows – interview: ‘I think as an artist and I make as a painter’
The artist talks about his strategies for thinking about painting, how his long-distance running is integral to his work, and the unexpectedly huge success of his #ArtistSupportPledge idea
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David Downes – interview: ‘Through the adversity, I thought this is something I’ve got to get down on paper’
The artist talks about his project of documenting the Covid-19 pandemic and how his autism feeds into his work
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Studio Morison – interview: ‘MOTHER … was made to heal us now, to prepare us for the future. We are now in that future, and she can help us still’
The artists talk about their site-specific, timber and straw commission, MOTHER …, for Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, which offers visitors somewhere to sit and shelter and escape from their own heads
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