Category: Interview
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David Roberts Art Foundation’s Evening of Performances
Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs, Gaika and Hannah Perry were among nine international artists performing to a packed house at the London nightclub Ministry of Sound during the city’s Frieze Week. The evening’s event was curated by Louise O’Kelly, founding director…
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Enoc Perez – interview: ‘I’m trying to create my own little encyclopaedia of cool’
The New York-based painter discusses his new show, The Cinematic Self, at Ben Brown Fine Arts, his painterly process, the interiors that excite him, and his approach to turning 50
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David Nash – interview: ‘The world of nature, the environment, weather, time and space is so rich, you have to engage with it’
The Welsh-based land artist talks of his early years, the evolution of his process, the importance of dialogue with materials and the need for his work to communicate the spirit and materials of its place
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Holly Hendry – interview: ‘I dabble between formalism and representation’
Just three years after leaving art school, Hendry has already had several high-profile shows. She talks about her love of problem-solving and manipulating materials and discusses her new exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Lucy Joyce – interview: ‘I’m not interested in the idea of spectacle; I’m interested in people catching sight of something subtly and what that then does for them’
With her six-month inaugural exhibition and a live Aktion ahead of the official opening, Joyce hopes to surprise visitors and make them think – as well as to leave behind something of her collaborative research to guard the new Brandenburgian…
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Mikhail Karikis – interview: ‘I have never cried during filming until this project’
Karikis has filmed children, teenagers, elderly female pearl divers and others on the margins on society. He talks about his aims and his latest project, at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, which focuses on carers
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Trevor Paglen — interview: ‘Everything is surveillance software at this point’
As he opens a new project at the Barbican Centre, the artist and critical geographer explains online image sets, surveillance culture and the return of human classification
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Silvia Ziranek – interview: ‘I enjoy appearance, colour, shape and form – and I love dressing up’
The artist discusses her approach to objects and performance, to writing and performing, and to language, the absurdity in life – and the colour pink
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Maria Pasenau – interview: ‘I made all these works through the prism of anxiety, devils and stress’
The young Norwegian photographer talks about fear, red devils, graveyards and reinvesting photography with a sense of truth
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Julie Cockburn – interview: ‘My work is about telling the truth, but in a really circuitous way’
At the opening of her latest show, Telling it Slant at Flowers Gallery, Cockburn talks about happy accidents, the labour that goes into her work and the simple joy of circles
