Category: Interview
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Veronica Ryan: ‘I’m interested in the semantics of perception’
The artist talks about her continuing connection with the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth, and how her interest in psychological trauma, and her own family history, has shaped her art
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Arthur Watson: ‘Central to the organisation of the show was that work would be presented as it would have been when first made or acquired’
The president of the Royal Scottish Academy discusses Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art 1540 to Now, an ambitious and exciting exhibition that was more than three years in the making
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Neha Choksi: ‘Transformations necessitate lost pasts and renewals of future hopes’
Through her latest work, a multichannel video installation entitled Faith in friction that features Choksi and her friends, the artist considers how the self is necessarily formed through engagement with others
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Zoë Buckman: ‘One role of feminism is to address and reframe how we construct masculinity’
The London-born, New York-based artist known for incorporating highly personal motifs, such as embroidered underwear, in her work, discusses feminism and the role women play within her art
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Antony Gormley: ‘Looking back at the paths you have taken is a really important exercise’
The artist talks about collaborating on a major new book about his career, the evolution of his work, and the impact of childhood on his practice
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Pamela Schilderman: ‘I really wanted people to think about what it is that makes a portrait’
What makes a portrait? What defines a person’s identity? These are questions at the core of Schilderman’s practice, and are questions she hopes to make her audience ask as well
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Maria Alyokhina: ‘The government media calls us enemies of the people … but I haven’t met anyone on the street who hates us’
Political activist and Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina talks to Studio International at the Saatchi Gallery about fighting government propaganda and the support the group receives from fellow artists
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Stan Douglas: ‘A re-enactment is an event that becomes processed in memory’
Photographer and film artist Stan Douglas talks about his new works, which extend his interest in historical moments of rupture to the 2011 London riots
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Grace Weir: ‘I often think through the camera’
In Irish film artist Grace Weir’s latest exhibition, Unfolded, past and present, the real and representational repeatedly elide. Here, Weir talks about her work and about challenging notions of fixity in art, physics and philosophy
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Juno Calypso: ‘Male critics don’t think women are funny, they don’t think women are capable of irony. They just think that women are silly and self-destructive’
London-based photographer Juno Calypso talks about femininity and disappointment in a man’s world
