Category: Interview
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Berlinde de Bruyckere – interview: ‘My themes are not easy. You can’t look to my work to become happy’
The Belgian artist talks about the issues, artists and musicians that inspire her, the evolution of key motifs and techniques, the influence of her childhood experiences, and the joy of making her first public sculpture
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Ro Robertson – interview: ‘The female shipbuilders of Sunderland have been a big inspiration’
At Sunderland’s Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, which stands beside the River Wear, is a new exhibition by Ro Robertson. We met them there to talk about the central installation and the other works in their first solo institutional show
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Natalia Millman – interview: ‘I want to talk about grief in an approachable way’
Inviting others to write a letter about their grief, and responding to each with a drawing, was the starting point for Natalia Millman to process her own loss
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Ernest Edmonds – interview: ‘The technology didn’t make it easy at the time, but it was clearly right for the future’
On the occasion of Networked, his show at Gazelli Art House, London, the pioneering computer artist talks about his practice over the past 60 years and his latest work, Quantum Tango – and offers advice to artists wanting to follow…
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Mika Rottenberg – interview: ‘I’m not an angel or a political activist. I want to be authentic’
The multidisciplinary artist talks about her first solo exhibition in Spain, at Hauser & Wirth Menorca, and discusses the importance of materials, how her works develop in dialogue with her thoughts and visions, and why she no longer blurs fact…
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Emma Talbot – interview: ‘I imagine the experience of life as an epic story – the one we all have’
Large installations, paintings on silk, fabric sculptures and drawings convey the connection between the specific and the universal and between life and death. Talbot tells us how myth, tragedy and politics colour her magical world
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Mikhail Karikis – interview: ‘What is the soundscape of the forthcoming future? The women’s response was gasping’
Karikis explains the ideas behind his new sound and video installation calling for action against climate change, on which he has collaborated with the SHE cooperative choir for women and non-binary people
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Jeremy Deller – interview: ‘I’m not looking for the next thing. I’m just following my nose and seeing where it takes me’
How did he go from asking a brass band to play acid house to filming former miners re-enacting a seminal moment from the 1984 miners’ strike, to his current assignment: staging a nationwide feast of art, music, processions and performances…
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Maggi Hambling: ‘The sea is sort of inside me now … [and] it’s as if she has become a wave’
Maggi Hambling’s new and highly personal installation, Time, in memory of her longtime partner, Tory Lawrence, opens the first arts and culture programme at Norfolk’s 18th-century Wolterton Hall as part of the exhibition Sea State
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William Mackrell – interview: ‘I have an interest in dissecting the myth of Sisyphus – the persistence in the seemingly impossible’
His work has included lighting 1,000 candles and getting two horses to pull a car. Now, he is using his dismantled childhood bed in one show and dancing in overalls laden with coins in another. He explains his interest in…
