Category: Interview

Andy Holden: ‘A lot of my work is a fidelity to what feels right more than an objective truth’

Andy Holden talks about his relationship with his father, the ornithologist Peter Holden, nature verses nurture, and sentimentality in the animal kingdom
Zhang Enli: ‘I pay attention to the subtle things that you might usually ignore’

The artist known for focusing on the poetic aspects of daily life talks about new approaches to painting as seen in his current series of works, which draws on gardens situated in the bustling urban environment of Shanghai
Yto Barrada: ‘The whole thing is a dance between a mad poet, children and ghosts’

Yto Barrada discusses her new exhibition at the Barbican Centre, which draws on a calamitous earthquake and the remarkable text it prompted
Lydia Ourahmane – interview: ‘Working with this personal history is something I have to deal with now, as a way of moving forward’

Lydia Ourahmane talks about her exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery, allegiance, betrayal, drawing on her Algerian family history for her work, and why she nearly dropped out of art school
Maija Luutonen: ‘I’m not a big fan of monuments’

Maija Luutonen is the inaugural recipient of the Kiasma Commission by Kordelin, a project to promote contemporary Finnish art. Here, she discusses her exhibition at Helsinki’s Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, community-building, monuments and painting on paper
Michael Armitage: ‘Can an art space function in the same way as a chapel?’

The artist weaves multiple narratives to evoke the complexity of East African society. Here, he talks about his exhibition The Chapel, at the South London Gallery, and how it gave him the chance to think about religion, spirituality and politics…
Encountering the Buddha and the Kandell Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room – an interview with curator Debra Diamond

The curator talks about Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, the current exhibition at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, which took three years to organise and brought together more than 200 objects spanning two…
Sophie Herxheimer: ‘I’m after precision in poetry … I’m after exactly what it was I heard … the kernel of what the voice said to me’

The poet, writer and image-maker talks about the ideas and inspiration that inform her work
Jason Brooks: ‘In a world that wants to eradicate detail by airbrushing it out, I’m interested in airbrushing it in’

Ahead of his exhibition at Marlborough, London, Jason Brooks showed Studio International around his Gloucestershire studio, revealing some of his inspirations and motivations
Edmund Clark: ‘The intervention, the control, the censorship is part of what I do’

Edmund Clark discusses his recent residency at the UK’s only wholly therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon; his time spent on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan; and how intervention and censorship have become a part of his work