Category: Interview
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Tom de Freston – interview: ‘Painting by its very nature is an act of mourning’
For an artist whose work is bound up with trauma and who suffered the devastating loss of 12 years’ work in a fire earlier this year, De Freston remains remarkably upbeat
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Mark Titchner – interview: ‘Language is how we relate to the world, there’s no separation’
His text-based work Please Believe These Days Will Pass has formed a key part of the UK’s early lockdown landscape. Here, he talks about his process and the power of language – its ambiguity as well as our collective understanding…
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Lonnie Holley – interview: ‘I started doing my work with a knife, fork and a spoon on sandstone’
Following a traumatic childhood, his art saved him, says Holley. Here he talks about the environment, the coronavirus – and why he’d love a Lonnie Holley museum near a landfill site
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Ken Done – interview: ‘We white blokes could learn from collaboration in Aboriginal art’
Now 80, Done says you should be fearless as you age and take more risks. Here he talks about why a good work is like a long-term relationship, collaborating on art with his grandchildren – and swimming with sharks
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Robert Fitzmaurice – interview: ‘I started to truncate the figure a lot more, take liberties with it, and add extra limbs’
The artist talks about the work in his latest show, now postponed, his interests and influences – and how he is coping with lockdown
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Hilarie Mais – interview: ‘I draw what I am working on as a way of understanding and observing the work’
The artist talks about her abstract constructions, which lie partway between painting and sculpture, and how her art was shaped by life in New York in the 1970s followed by her move to Australia nearly 40 years ago
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The effects of Covid-19 on Italian museums: interviews with the directors of the Accademia Carrara, the Uffizi and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
As Italy tentatively enters a less restrictive phase of Europe’s longest lockdown, the leaders of three prominent art institutions consider the immediate effects and longer-term implications of a global calamity
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg – interview: ‘We need to radically rethink our behaviours, globally’
The coronavirus pandemic is a chance for people to ask how they can do better by nature, says Ginsberg, who talks about her work using artificial intelligence and technology
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Helen Cammock – interview: ‘Creativity requires a space of idleness, of being still’
Last year’s Turner Prize-winner talks about the inspiration behind her latest film and text installation, different understandings of idleness, the role that writing plays in her practice and how her time as a social worker feeds into her art
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A personal message: Anita Glesta
Brooklyn-based artist Anita Glesta sends a video message from her temporary studio in upstate New York. “I am reading about, and working on, what it means when a foreign substance … enters the body, and the fragility of being human”
