Category: Interview

Zarah Hussain: ‘I don’t think something that’s spiritual precludes the use of technology’

Zarah Hussain (b1980, Cheshire, UK) places her work at “the intersection of science and spirituality”. She combines a lifelong fascination with – and extensive training in – hand-drawn Islamic geometry with the latest digital software to create hypnotic, looping animations…
Nicolás Herrera: Enchanted Nature – Deforestation and the Environment

Enchanted Nature: Deforestation and the Environment, on show in Beijing, is an exhibition of 61 drawings and 12 large-scale paintings by Latin-American artist Nicolás Herrera
Julie Montgarrett: ‘I have always gravitated to the seductive character and movement of cloth and thread’

Australian artist Julie Montgarrett uses her work to explore the continent’s problematic colonial past, employing textiles and stitching to tease out the selective histories and mythologies of settler narratives
Pavel Brăila: ‘Roots are the most important thing that we have’

After a summer of double Documentas, the Moldovan artist Pavel Brăila is now included in the second edition of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara, Romania. Here, he talks about how his home region has inspired his work
Nathalie Du Pasquier: ‘From the beginning, I did not belong to the design world or to the art world’

In her first comprehensive survey in the US, the artist and designer reveals a diverse and colourful practice that started with legendary design collective Memphis. Here, she talks about the show and moving from design to painting
Katriona Beales: ‘It’s not the internet that is malevolent, but the way behavioural psychology is employed to coerce compulsive use’

Following the opening of Are We All Addicts Now? at London’s Furtherfield, Katriona Beales, the exhibition’s lead artist, talks about the digital power to seduce and coerce
James Richards: Music for the gift – Wales in Venice, 2017

Wales has always punched above its weight at the Biennale, and 2017 is no exception. This year – for its eighth successive appearance – the selected artist is James Richards, a multimedia artist whose work combines layers or fragments of…
Robert Longo: ‘I’m making artworks out of dust’

At his first solo exhibition in London, New York artist Robert Longo talks about charcoal, photography, violence and Donald Trump
Ross Birrell: ‘I saw a possible way to draw a relationship between art and emancipatory politics’

Ross Birrell talks horses, endurance and taking risks in relation to two works for Documenta, his film Criollo and The Athens-Kassel Ride: The Transit of Hermes, a procession of horses and riders on a 1,850-mile journey, which he describes as…
Lucas Arruda: ‘The only reason to call my works landscapes is cultural’

On the occasion of his first London exhibition, at David Zwirner, Lucas Arruda discusses his almost pathological pursuit of a particular theme, revealing the macro within the micro, and how his imaginary landscapes are states of mind suspended in paint