Category: Interview

David Shrigley: ‘The quality of the work for me is about avoiding contrivance’

David Shrigley talks about his large-scale installation Life Model II at Fabrica Gallery in Brighton, part of the Brighton Festival for which he is this year’s guest director
Mariele Neudecker: ‘I get labelled as a climate change artist at times, but I don’t look at it that way’

Bristol based artist Mariele Neudecker talks about how Cern inspires her, why you shouldn’t call her a climate change artist and why flight recorders are like the human soul
Nancy Fouts: ‘I once made a slingshot out of Jesus and had his head worn like a necklace. Someone stole it. That was a nice compliment’

Nancy Fouts brings her trademark baroque theatricality, dada mischief and love of a good pun to Flowers Gallery in London with a decade’s worth of visual treats
Phillip K Smith III: ‘The earth and the sky are the things that bind us’

As he prepares to mount an illusionistic new installation in Milan, the American space and light artist talks time, technology and theatricality
José Parlá: ‘It challenges me to work against the grain of the status quo’

For his most ambitious project to date, commissioned by the Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin, Parlá transforms a 4,000-sq-foot site into a panoramic landscape evocative of Austin’s natural and urban environment
Miguel Chevalier: ‘I feel that I live in what’s happening today’

Ahead of two simultaneous solo shows in London, pioneering computer artist Miguel Chevalier invited Studio International into his Paris studio to discuss his interest in making the real virtual and the virtual real
Clementine Keith-Roach: ‘I think of domestic objects and furniture as physical extensions of our body’

The artist and set designer discusses casting her mother’s breasts for one of her nipple urns, breast milk for bodybuilders and the problematics of bodies and economies
Dawn Mellor: ‘It is not surprising that activism and resentments due to economics, class, racism and gender are emerging’

The artist best-known for her parodic portraits of celebrities talks about taking a year of from painting, exploring social media and satirising identity politics
Michele Oka Doner: ‘We can’t repair the Earth if we don’t fall in love with it’

American artist and author Michele Oka Doner shares some of her explorations of nature and ritual from across her five decade-long practice
Jedd Novatt: ‘I feel the same tension about the next work as I did 40 years ago – the same tension of wanting to achieve something I’m looking for’

In advance of an exhibition of new works, Novatt talks about his long career making geometric sculptures in industrial metals and discusses the thinking behind them