Category: Interview
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Leo Villarreal – interview: ‘It was interesting to connect to the universal power of light. As humans we really respond to these things’
American artist Leo Villareal talks about his first solo show at Pace, London, and his latest public project, involving 15 major bridges on the Thames
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Sara MacKillop – interview: ‘I take things that I’ve seen in the world and put them together in different ways’
The artist talks about her latest show, Returns and Renewals, now at Peer Gallery in east London, making art inspired by everyday life, and her involvement with artists’ books and self-publishing
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Hansjörg Mayer – interview: ‘To handle and open and read the books … that to me is a very important thing’
Poet, typographer and publisher Hansjörg Mayer and the computer art pioneer Frieder Nake talk us through this major exhibition of Mayer’s works from concrete poetry to radical typography to artists’ publications
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Berenice Carrington: ‘I think of the naturalistic style of my drawing as empathetic realism’
The artist, who describes her work as ethnographic drawing, explains how her practice began when she worked with Aboriginal people in Australia and draws similarities between that continent and Shetland, where she now lives
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Larissa Sansour – interview: ‘That is often what identity and trauma does to you: you become stuck in an idea that you can’t get out of without losing yourself’
The Palestinian artist unravels some of the layers of In Vitro, her science-fiction film now showing in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and relates it to our present – unsettling – reality
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Edmund de Waal – interview: ‘The great thing about a library is that, as soon as you have made it, people start to use it’
The British artist and author talks about his many exhibitions this year, including his work for the Venice Biennale 2019 in which he turned the idea of the ghetto into a place of hope and possibility
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Anthony Eyton – interview: ‘I’m still dealing with my mother’s early death. That’s what the paintings are about perhaps’
Now 96, remarkably the Royal Academician’s latest show is full of recent paintings, which Frank Auerbach has told him are his most original yet. He talks about his artistic practice, the influence of his mother’s work and how hard he…
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami – interview: ‘How I identify isn’t what pushes me to create. I create because I cannot do anything else’
The Zimbabwe-born, London-based artist talks about her new work for her solo show at Gasworks in London and why her paintings for this year’s Venice Biennale almost reduced her to tears
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Michael Simpson – interview: ‘Every single painting involves an element of fear’
The artist discusses how going to a football match at the age of seven inspired him to start painting, his dislike of organised religion, his rigorous approach to his art and his current new work at Blain Southern
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Michael Sherrill – interview: ‘I’d call myself a student of art’
Sherrill talks about his current retrospective at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, why he calls himself a “material-based artist”, being influenced by Matisse – and the joy of home-grown tomatoes
