Category: Interview

Caragh Thuring: ‘It’s a sort of standoff – how am I going to deal with this?’

The Brussels-born artist discusses reconstructing old paintings as tapestries to create new work, why she uses figures from adverts, and her love of bricks
Mette Edvardsen: ‘If forgetting is important, then so is remembering’

The dancer, choreographer and performer talks about memorising books and then retelling them, and exploring the possibilities and limits of language
Kong Ning: ‘Being a witness mentally scarred me’

Multidisciplinary artist and environmental activist Kong Ning is based in Beijing. Born in Heilongjiang province in 1958, she studied law, but, deeply disturbed by the inequities of China’s judicial system and a fierce opponent of the death penalty, she decided…
George Ridgway: interview

George Ridgway graduated last year from the Glasgow School of Art. His work traverses painting and installation with an intuitive ease as he subtly translates music, movement and the forces of the natural world into paint
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016

Since 1949 New Contemporaries has hand-picked graduate and emerging artists to present them to the public as the rising stars of the art world. Studio International visited the touring exhibition on its opening night at the Institute of Contemporary Arts…
Kate Fahey: interview

Kate Fahey is concerned with slowing down how we interact with images. In the age of Google, where our consumption of the visual divorces us from context and meaning, Fahey seeks to reappropriate photographs that have become lost or degraded…
Seungjo Jeong: interview

South Korean artist Seungjo Jeong creates pared-back canvases that explore the relationship between viewer and artist through the almost abstract evocation of objects
Fabienne Verdier: ‘I am an intrepid woman, a bit of a rebel maybe’

Verdier explains her unique method of vertical painting, using a handmade brush with a large reserve of paint, capable of expressing her seemingly unstoppable flow of energy
Roger Hiorns – interview: ‘It isn’t enough to put an artwork in the world. You have to think about redesigning the world around the artwork’

Roger Hiorns explains his methods of exploration and excavation, and why he believes art is not so much about making objects as about designing behaviour
Sophie Jung: ‘I don’t trust language’

The performance artist talks about Chinese encyclopaedias, the Austrian feminist playwright Elfriede Jelinek, and her family of actors