Category: Interview
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Oluwole Omofemi – interview: ‘In my paintings, I try to tell the black community to embrace their beauty, to embrace their colour’
The Nigerian artist talks about how he uses hair – specifically the afro – as a metaphor for freedom and power, and a symbol of identity
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Janet Laurence – interview: ‘White Australians didn’t have a way of seeing our landscape’
A leading contemporary artist in Australia, Laurence talks about colonialisation and using her art to address the fragility of nature and climate change
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Marguerite Humeau – interview : ‘I think art was born from a will to become eternal, to leave a permanent trace’
Whether she is reconstructing the voice of Cleopatra or creating futuristic elephantine forms, Humeau is, she says, preoccupied with death
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Ziba Ardalan – interview: ‘Parasol has been 16 years of go-go … Maybe it’s time to do something else’
Ardalan talks about her decision to close Parasol unit, and its achievements in London over the last 16 years
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Maurice Burns – interview: ‘I think musically when I compose my painting and in the choice of colours I use’
The artist talks about his current exhibition at Gerald Peters, his first show in New York, his complex, collage-like paintings, his friendship with RB Kitaj and listening to Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane while he paints
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Carmen Neely – interview: ‘I’m interested in the process of what is lost and gained in translation’
The artist talks about the role of collecting, (re)creating characters and identities, translation, and the seriousness of play in her practice
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Jake Wood-Evans – interview: ‘I don’t think you can make a successful painting unless you are bold and commit to the action of taking away and risking something’
Taking great baroque altarpieces as his starting point, Jake Wood-Evans marks out his composition, applies his paint and then starts to move and remove it, leaving abstract traces, like the passing of time
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Denzil Forrester – interview: ‘I needed that dark space to bring out that energy… you have to give yourself over to it’
Studio International spoke with Forrester at the opening of Itchin & Scratchin, his first major solo institutional show, at Nottingham Contemporary
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An-My Lê – interview: ‘All the striations of important events are retained within the landscape, whether you see it or not’
Photographer An-My Lê talks about her project Silent General and the personal and political tensions that run though her work
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Tony Lewis – interview: ‘I’ve got to wear a Tyvek suit, a ventilation mask, two pairs of gloves and two pairs of shoes whenever I go to the studio’
The artist explains the lengths he must go to in order to create his signature graphite ‘floor drawings’ and talks about his latest exhibition, at Massimo de Carlo, Milan, based on the legendary 1965 Cambridge debate about race between James…
