Category: Interview
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Eddie Martinez: ‘I just want people to interpret the work how they want’
Eddie Martinez talks about his latest show, Cowboy Town, at Timothy Taylor Gallery in London, the influence of US politics on artists, and why he looks at his work on his phone all night
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Linda Kitson: [Mine is] ‘a reactive sort of work – it’s a reaction to, rather than … a preconceived idea …’
Linda Kitson talks about the works in Drawings and Projects, her current exhibition at House of Illustration in London, curated by Quentin Blake, being a war artist during the Falklands crisis, her inspiration and influences, and her latest work using…
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Ruth Maclennan: ‘I realised that global warming was happening, and asked, how do I as an artist respond to that’
Visual artist Ruth Maclennan talks about what art can do in the face of climate change, her films of Arctic Russia and her latest film, shot in Scotland, From Time to Time at Sea
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Secundino Hernández: ‘As a painter you have to have the courage to not be afraid of change’
Secundino Hernández talks about his academic origins, the delicate equilibrium he seeks between accident and control, the quintessentially Spanish spirit of his painting, and his current exhibition, Paso, at Victoria Miro, London
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Enrique Martínez Celaya: ‘The sense of past as memory always has force’
Enrique Martínez Celaya talks about his latest show, The Gypsy Camp, and his interest in nomadism and displacement, including his own experience of moving as a child from Cuba to Spain and then to the US, and explains his process…
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Ipek Duben: ‘I’m suggesting, with this project, that we should stop to listen’
Turkish artist Ipek Duben discusses her work THEY/ONLAR, a multiscreen video installation previously seen at SALT, Istanbul, and now showing for the first time in the UK
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Brook Andrew: ‘I was challenged to unwind the histories that were told to me because I didn’t believe them’
History, identity and race dominate the Australian artist Brook Andrew’s work, as he challenges stereotypical ideas, uncovering neglected and often conflicted histories, particularly relating to the Indigenous people of his own country
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Alexey Titarenko: ‘I wanted to capture my inner perception of the world around me’
An exhibition at the Naiya Alexander Gallery in New York brings together Alexey Titarenko’s photographs from four cities taken over 30 years. Here, he talks about how life in the Soviet Union shaped his work, being jailed by the KGB,…
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Deanna Petherbridge: ‘Drawing can be a million different things, but I think basically it’s a critical practice’
Using pen and ink as a metaphorical means of interrogating human interest, Deanna Petherbridge sees drawing as akin to writing, only perhaps more democratic
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James Capper: the making of Six Step
We visited James Capper over the course of four months, first filming him in his London studio where he explained the initial concept for his sculpture Six Step and finally following him to its installation at the Venice Biennale in…
