Category: Interview
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Christine Rebet– interview: ‘Animation is perfect for critique: it is a minor medium, it’s not film; like drawing is not painting’
Studio International spoke to Rebet at the opening of Time Levitation, her first solo show in the UK, at Parasol unit, London
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Darren Waterston – interview: ‘My normal studio practice is quite monastic … in so many ways I feel this (Filthy Lucre) is a shared collaboration’
Studio International spoke to Waterston ahead of the opening of his installation Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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John Cornish – interview: ‘It would be unfair just to look back on my father’s career as that of a good pictorial social historian – his artwork has aesthetic quality; it is real and immersive’
The son of the artist Norman Cornish, whose work is synonymous with mining life in the County Durham town of Spennymoor, looks back at his father’s life and artistic legacy
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya – interview: ‘I’m not making tricky pictures. There’s nothing that’s composed that’s meant to look like something else’
While a quest to understand the myriad undefined potentials of queer social spaces is one factor behind Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s deconstruction of his portraits, primarily he seeks to interrogate the act of photography itself
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Ann Dumas – interview: ‘Every exhibition is fraught with problems and difficulties – but it’s never dull’
One of the UK’s leading curators, Dumas talks about women in the art world, the trials and triumphs of curatorial life, the differences between working in the US and the UK, and Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, and Picasso – the…
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Alison Carlier – interview: ‘Drawn marks can describe and convey human experience beyond words’
The artist, the first to win the Jerwood Drawing Prize for an audio piece, talks about the overlap between drawing and words, and explains what informs her practice
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Pio Abad – interview: ‘The backbone of my practice is family: personal and political narratives entwined’
The London-based Filipino artist talks about The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders, 3D replicas of some of the $21m haul of jewels amassed by Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and why the underlying narrative throughout this project is the…
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Alfredo Jaar – interview: ‘You can talk about violence without humiliating the victim’
As his seminal Rwanda Project is revived at London’s Goodman Gallery, the Chilean artist and architect speaks on inculcating empathy, the difficulty of representing real-world tragedy and the malaise of the contemporary media
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Robert Holyhead – interview: ‘I see each painting as a single, emerged gesture’
The artist discusses his new work, No Movement, No Colour, at Galerie Max Hetzler, London, and why, despite months of meticulous preparation, each oil painting must be finished in a single day
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Meryl McMaster – interview: ‘I explore complex questions around one’s sense of self and belonging to two heritages’
McMaster, who often transforms herself into hybrid animal-human creatures for her photographs, discusses her show, As Immense as the Sky, at the Ikon Gallery, and how her mixed European and Plains Cree ancestry feeds into her work
