Category: Interview
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Helen Beard: interview
Helen Beard’s striking and marvellously simplified, flat colour images, take you by surprise in a number of ways. The fresh colour forms pack a satisfying punch even before the viewer has undergone the gradual realisation that the paintings portray a…
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Catherine Parsonage: ‘I wanted to break things apart, let everything be available to me’
The artist talks about how living in Rome has changed her work, why she is so interested in bodily fluids, and the role that alcohol and desire play in her painting
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Eve Fowler: ‘Stein’s work really affected me’
The artist talks about her latest exhibition, What a slight, what a sound, what a universal shudder, at Dundee Arts Contemporary, and what has led her to engage so closely with Stein’s work
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Manuel Mathieu: ‘Life experience sometimes forces you to see things that you wouldn’t otherwise have seen’
The Haitian artist talks about coming to terms with his country’s turbulent history and some personal challenges, and why he doesn’t take the business of making art lightly
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James Edgar and Sam Walker: ‘We think of Assembly Point as part of our collaborative practice’
James Edgar and Sam Walker talk about Assembly Point, their co-founded gallery, studio space and publishing company, which they set up in 2015 in south London
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Eleanor Pinfield: ‘London – and London Underground – deserves to have the best artists in the world’
Pinfield is Head of Art on the Underground, which has commissioned work by Cindy Sherman, David Shrigley and Assemble, among others. She talks about this year’s lineup of female artists and the desire to bring art to millions of travellers
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Vera Molnár: ‘I have no regrets. My life is squares, triangles, lines’
The pioneer of computer-assisted art recounts her love affair with lines, the balancing of order and chaos, and preparing to be surprised
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David Cross: ‘Art is what fills the gap between how the world is and how I’d love it to be’
A reader at the University of the Arts London, Cross talks about his struggle to persuade the university to cut ties with fossil fuel investments and his continuing efforts to bridge the gap between commerce and environmental ethics
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Phyllida Barlow: ‘It’s the first time I’ve experienced making something not within my control. Letting go of that was horrifying’
As her first permanent artwork, Quarry is unveiled at Jupiter Artland, outside Edinburgh, Barlow talks about its conception and creation, its location in the woods surrounding the house and gardens, and the ‘horrifying’ experience of ceding control to engineers and…
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Celia Pym – interview: ‘I didn’t ever see the point of invisible mending’
Describing herself as ‘an artist who works in textiles’ Pym talks about her recent surgery for mending at the V&A, why she mends old clothes and artefacts, and why she feels it is so important to see the damage and…
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