Category: Interview
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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Presence, Essence, Identity
Magdalena Mielnicka, an expert on Abakanowicz, talks about the irrepressible Polish artist’s extraordinary life and her uncanny sculptures, currently on show at Stara Kopalnia Science and Art Centre, Wałbrzych
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Henrike Naumann: ‘I really see fascism in the furniture’
Naumann’s careful recreations of 1990s living spaces explore how sudden social and economic change led to the rise of the far right in Germany and Austria
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Damien Coulthard: Songlines XXX, Adnyamathanha Yarta – ‘It’s exciting when you feel a connection with ancestral lands’
To mark its 30th anniversary, Rebecca Hossack Gallery is showing the Australian artist Damien Coulthard. Here, he talks about painting the creation stories of his people, the Adnyamathanha
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Pierre Le-Tan: The Collection of Monsieur X
The French artist and illustrator explains his love of collecting, his collaboration with Patrick Modiano and why he stopped working for magazines
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Phoebe Unwin: Field
Unwin describes the role of memory in the 10 oil paintings of this solo show and explains why she resists being aligned with any specific group or movement
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Billy Apple interview: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else 1961–2018
Billy Apple is not just an artist – he’s a trademarked brand. He talks about exchanging his art for a knee operation and his new exhibition at the Mayor Gallery, London
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Stephen Farthing on The Miracle Paintings
Farthing explains how his Miracle paintings, now on show at Salisbury Cathedral, came from a conversation he had with a Coptic priest in Cairo
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Dan Graham on Rock’n’Roll
As Dan Graham’s new show opens at the Lisson Gallery in London, he talks about his early days as a New York gallerist, his love of music and why he doesn’t believe his famous pavilions are important
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The Old Stile Press
Nicolas and Frances McDowall started the Old Stile Press almost 40 years ago. They talk to Studio International about the many and varied books they have produced in that time
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Ian Davenport: Colourscapes
The artist discusses works done over the past year, now at Waddington Custot, London, as well as the three decades of his work on show at Dallas Contemporary
