Category: Interview
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Shu Lea Cheang and Dondon Hounwn – interview: ‘Hagay Dreaming continually evolves and pushes forward through performance’
Speaking during rehearsals, Cheang and Hounwn reflect on the sources of inspiration for the project, on the developmental curve from its inception to its first full theatrical performance at Tate, what audiences might expect and what messages are being transmitted
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Alison Watt – interview: ‘I have spent my whole life working from life, so to work from death was a different experience’
The Scottish artist’s astounding trompe l’oeil still lifes of artefacts inspired by the life and times of Sir John Soane integrate into the architecture of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, creating an engaging 18th-century Gesamtkunstwerk
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Louisa Gagliardi – interview: ‘Something really important in my work is how disconnected we feel in this hyperconnected digital world’
At the opening of her show at MASI Lugano, Gagliardi says she draws from Renaissance art and surrealism, film and TV as much as social media, to create digitally manipulated images and printed portraits and landscapes that express the isolation…
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Maryam Tafakory – interview: ‘We weren’t just learning to draw – we were tasting pleasures we weren’t allowed’
The film-maker collages found footage with the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran to explore censorship and prohibition. She discusses her life growing up in Iran, her parents’ refusal to let her attend art school, and what winning the 2024 Film London…
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Stephen Dean – interview: ‘A ladder fitted perfectly into a place that combined the terrestrial with the celestial world’
Dean discusses Crescendo, his installation of a 15-metre ladder decorated with his signature coloured dichroic stained glass, in the Saint-Denis Cathedral Basilica in Paris
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Lindsey Mendick – interview: ‘My brain is not my best friend’
What is it to be a woman who doesn’t have all her shit together and to be making work that is quite salacious or tongue in cheek? Lindsey Mendick opens up
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Karolina Albricht, Basil Beattie and Lizzie Munn – interviews: ‘What abstract painting means to me’
Three artists talk about the paintings they are exhibiting in the Saatchi Gallery’s Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London
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Basil Beattie – interview: ‘passageway, corridor, ladder, staircase, tunnel: they are all words I use metaphorically with regard to other human experiences’
Rooted in abstract painting, Basil Beattie has for many years developed a uniquely powerful vocabulary of metaphoric images
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Karolina Albricht – interview: ‘I was fascinated by how an image plays on different levels: an image that describes something, and an image that can transcend, perhaps, and provide access to the divine’
Albricht discusses her ambitious multi-part painting inspired by the Eastern European tradition of Icon painting
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Lizzie Munn – interview: ‘Composing them on a wall, rather than being held in the plane like a painting, the layers are more actual than illusionistic’
A recent graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, Lizzie Munn works between printing, painting, sculpture and installation
